…how monstrous the people you loved could be.

I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you at all stick around.

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.

It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

If reading isn't about communication, it is, in the end, about sharing. But a deferred and fiercely selective kind of sharing.

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

The path of imperfection is the loving way to learn tolerance and happiness.

Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.

In life, no two days are the same for me. It's like a snowflake.

The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?

Having a good network can be invaluable. It opens doors for you and allows you to enter into opportunities that are beneficial to your business.

When we can converse with the animals, we will know the change is halfway here. When we can converse with the forest, we will know the change has come.

The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase Even as our days do grow!