“But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.”

Fiction is founded on truth unless things did happen, people couldn’t think of them.

There are questions that you don’t ask because you’re afraid of the answers to them.

I learned that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back – that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn’t it?

Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.

One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave – our own self. Get on good terms with that companion – learn to live with yourself.

Very few of us are what we seem.

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming… suddenly you find – at the age of 50, say – that a whole new life has opened before you.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

Books are a habit-forming drug.

If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.

There’s too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love!

Love brings about the most vulnerable parts of us.

If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create.

Sit with your presence and feel the peace your soul has to offer.

Self-love is hardest to do when you need it most.

Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

It’s not rare to love, but it’s rare to be loved these days.

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It’s not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.