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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.
No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.
Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.
Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together.
It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.
View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.
A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
No matter how old we get, life's always got a lesson for you. Most likely one you've learned ten times before.
I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.
What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.
Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.
Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.
There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.
A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.
Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?
When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on.
I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.
Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in one another.
L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.
There's a fine line between love and hate.Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.
Why do we stop believing in ourselves? Why do we let facts and figures and anything but dreams rule our lives?
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate.
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm.
Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.
Amoebas, once they have themselves well pulled in two, go their ways-they practice divorce, but no remarriage.
I was pregnant with my daughter when I started writing my first thriller, so I guess you could blame hormones.
I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better.
I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations.
We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.
Just for the record, the weather today is increasing turmoil with a possible physical and emotional breakdown.
This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.
Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.
People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves.
I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes.
It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.
Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.
What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it.
What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream
There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing.