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My favorite thing to write is people under pressure in high-stakes circumstances.
The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present
It is said that the greatest cruelty is drawn from those with the kindest hearts.
Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.
The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
It’s easier to accumulate wealth if you don’t live in a high-status neighborhood.
When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.
You see my next door neighbour worships exhaust pipes, he's a catholic converter.
It will soon be difficult to put up a shelf without a degree in shelf putting up.
When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.
Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.
I'm too short-sighted, too squeamish for contact lenses and too vain for glasses.
Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married
All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made.
When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.
If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.
I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.
Love endures when the lovers love many things together And not merely each other.
Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans. The hand of the surgeon is hard, but healing.
I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.
The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
Feeling in the young precedes philosophy, and often acts with a more certain aim.
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.
A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.
Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
We are only possible as what happened to us yesterday. We all change as well move
The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components.
In Africa, those who have money - businessmen and banks - do not believe in film.
It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist.
You really can't write well if you're thinking about what the reviewers might say.
She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.
Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.