They say you cannot make a noise to annoy yourself.

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

Beware trying to iron out all your quirks, perceived flaws and doubts. It's often these things that help you find strength, compassion, empathy for others and heart.

The horror genre is fun but I'm not sure it is quite right for me.

Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

Without justice, courage is weak.

Books are the training weights of the mind.

It is not the part of divinity to go to humanity and to modify itself in any shape, manner or form; rather it is up to humanity to make itself available to divinity.

When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for 'life' or 'growing up uninstitutionalized'.

...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)

The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture.

Why I am NOT going to buy a computer