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I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
We have no idea what tomorrow will bring, but today is overflowing with potential.
Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.
Just so you know Gallagher Girl,' he whispered softly, 'I'm going to kiss you now.
Each opening bud, and care-perfected seed, Is as a page, where we may read of God.
That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.
Fashion is always uncomfortable. When you get comfortable, you never get the look.
Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.
We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out.
notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.
We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds.
Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.
A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.
I want to write books that can truly become a legacy and bring benefits to people.
Experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher.
Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.
The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.
I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.
When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
Women endowed with remarkable sensibilities enjoy much; but they also suffer much.
one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us
That's really what I want in a leader; I want somebody who's really, really smart.
I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?
I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.
One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
It's funny how you can be mad at someone one moment and want to hug them the next.
I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!
In woods where the woodsmen told lies, maybe it was the wolves who told the truth.
If a thought or an action does not feel right, it is a caution flag from the soul.
It's not whether animals will survive, it's whether man has the will to save them.
No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!
Most of what one feels compelled to write stems from a deep emotional uncertainty.
I only know that from wherever it is that we're going there can be no turning back
The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes.
The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.
To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.
It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.
The hand can be quicker than the eye, and the mouth can be quicker than the brain.
Thanks to my computer, I have now achieved a much higher state of disorganization.
Why is the competition always so intense to set new records for maximum stupidity?
It's hard enough to be alive and human, without the additional burden of being me.
I can face anything, except the future, and certain parts of the past and present.