There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.

...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

In the end, it’s all a question of balance.

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

Time had changed the magical to mundane

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

Roar to your own beat!

In the face of every type of pain, we tend to think that life will never be the same, but guess what, it was never going to be the same anyway.

No one goes on, but what we leave behind keeps us alive for someone else.

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

There are people out there dying every day, so when you wake up, you just have to thank the Man Upstairs for another day on this planet. There's not much else we can ask for.

One can be unhappy before eating caviar, even after, but at least not during.

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.

People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less