You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.

The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.

I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.

I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts.

What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.

God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.

We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what we're going to do about that love on any given day.

As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates.

One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.

You narrow hope when you define it.

Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.

Her mouth set. "I've already lost one man I loved tonight. I will not lose the other." She glared at him. "And curse you, you stone head, for making me say it first.

It seems like women are always in the kitchen around food and they're serving and they're giving and they're enjoying and it's part of the plentitude of life and the enrichment of life.

She was smooth and beautiful under his rough, callused hands-an amorous balm to soothe the ugliness of war.

Happiness is a necessity. It’s not a thing money can buy but a feeling that comes from within.

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.

We live by hope. We do not ever get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way, it will be better and that we can make it so.

All other areas of my life, I'm hopeless. I can't even be certain how to boil an egg.

Managed funds are astonishingly tax-inefficient.

I am not a logician. I am an existentialist. I believe in this meaningless, beautiful chaos of existence, and I am ready to go with it wherever it leads.