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Wishes are powerful things. You can't expect them to change the world without changing you too.
It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.
The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.
The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
If we wish to quench our thirst, we must lay aside books which explain thirst and take a drink.
To love God in great things is not so perfect an act of faith as to worship them in small ones.
unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.
This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?
Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!
I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.
Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.
I write and draw from the gut. I often don't know what my stories are about until they're done.
But what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things?
Because just for a few seconds, someone else hurts, too. For just a few seconds, I'm not alone.
It's fairly common to get something optioned but really rare to actually see it become a movie.
I came of age during the Golden Age of rom coms - like the '90s and 2000s - there were so many.
All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.
I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet.
The words marriage and divorce were always used together, like they went hand in hand together.
I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.
According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.
Where there is love, there is revolution, because love is transformation from moment to moment.
To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.
It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.
If God gave Dad Alzheimer’s, He’s got to understand when Dad forgets what church he belongs to.
Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.
Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.
Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.
Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.
We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.
No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.
I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.
We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.
"Sarge, mr. Nurd here is threatening to turn me to jelly." "really?" said Sarge. "what flavor?
Hell, I'm going to play pro basketball. I'm going to maybe be famous. I'm going to write books.
I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.
It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French.
Many of the French follow a Trade with the Indians, living very conveniently for that Interest.
Don't treat people as you think they are, treat them as you think they are capable of becoming.
I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.
My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.