“If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.”

Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?

Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.

The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself

And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.

The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.

We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.

Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.

And balancing motherhood and career makes you both a better mother and a better businesswoman.

And perhaps there is none now; but we will have to make it, we who want an end to suffering, who want to change the laws of history, if we are not to give ourselves away.

He illustrated by saying he believed the world was created in six 24-hour days. And he repeated this to make an impression upon us.

It ain’t made for everybody, but I knocked a lot of blocks down.

I think that’s the biggest mistake men make on the first date.

Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.

I look at my roommates who are so proud of me that it makes me proud.

But when he finally does make it, they’re not going to make it easy for him. That never changes.