I Love, Therefore I Am
I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.
Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.
I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability. . . but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.
Mistakes are growth, and we learn not to do it again. But it doesn't make you a terrible person. That's important to me.
The rains of Life's Blessings cannot gather on mountaintops of pride, but flow easily into valleys of humbleness.
You have to deduce a person's real feelings about a thing by a smile she does not know is on her face, by the way bitterness tightens muscles at a mouth's corner, or the way air is allowed to flow from the lungs.