When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
It's terrible to know that no matter how you try to help your child, his condition will worsen.
The most precious love is often the kind that isn't returned, and that is given freely.
Although I don't think love is quantitatively measured - in other words, I don't believe that you "don't know love until you have a child," that whole thing - I do believe it is qualitatively different.
Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc.
I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story, but you have to make up the story.
I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.
You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually, sincerely believe you, you feel like a cockroach that needs some serious Raid action.
Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect.
The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.
I had tried, as I thought as a nun, to open myself to God and God seemed totally uninterested in me. The heavens remained closed and opaque. I now realize, of course, that I had a very, very inadequate idea of God. I was expecting clouds to part, a little sort of whisper in my ear, and of course, that's not what God is. God is not another being; we are talking about something much more profound.