“Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.”

Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

I’m wondering what to read next.

I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.

Good writing is essentially rewriting.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.

The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.

The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.

If you are good life is good.

If you are good life is good.

The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.

A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.

Obscurity is never a virtue.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

Pleasure disguised himself as happiness and stole life away.

Every experience is really just a lesson in disguise. Don’t let it go to waste.

Pain is a two-way street, sometimes it drags you till the verge of insanity and sometimes it is a blessing in disguise. 

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.

You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you’re the devil in disguise.

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.