I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.
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.
History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles.
Some people say you have to be a Christian to be saved. I had to stop being Christian to be saved.
The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.