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I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.
After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.
Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?
There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.
He yearned not to feel... He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him.
On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar.
Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.
According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher.
I must admit, Peter, I have difficulty in understanding why an innocent man would want to spend twelve years as a rat.
Time was a funny and fickle thing. Sometimes there was never enough of it, and other times it stretched out endlessly.
I want to be here with you, Avery. You don't have to worry about impressing me or wowing me. You've already done that.
I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best.
Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.
he knows too much about himself to subject her to a morning after, when he will be cold, surly, impatient to be alone.
You've got nothing to worry about. The righteous do not always right, but their souls remain pure. -Lassiter the Angel
Darkness will never take me... because I have you. Light of my life, Marissa. That's what you are." -Butch and Marissa
It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.
Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So-Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket.
How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable -- all at the same time?
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.
A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.
I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.
Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.
Like many young women, I grew up believing that (1) physical ability wasn't very important, and (2) I didn't have any.
When he (man) ceased any longer to heed the words of the seers and prophets, science lovingly brought forth the radio.
The musty smell, the bugs, the lonliness, this room, which is part of the street outside-this is all I want from life.
Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.
If love were endless, if it were on tap, it wouldn't hit us the way it does. And we certainly wouldn't write about it.
The only way we know it's true is that we both dreamed it. That's what reality is. It's a dream everyone has together.
Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better.
Not to brag, but I do think I've gotten pretty adept on PowerPoint... except that I can't figure out how to use Excel!
I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of it OK.
You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the story ends.
People are not afraid to be activists, to be vocal. And I think back to my years in college, and that wasn't the case.
I think, when I write, one of the things that I'm really attempting to do is I'm attempting to humanize my characters.
I took a photo of us, mid-embrace. When I am old and alone I will remember that I once held something truly beautiful.
I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.
... Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty.
I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.
Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet.
Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.
Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.
What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?
What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand.