But pain is an impatient customer. It wouldn't be long before it demanded attention.

I do believe that dreams are interpretable. Analysis and praxis have taught me so.

I'm suspicious of dreams in books too. Because they're boring and too self-serving.

I think it's important to let each thing you write teach you how to write it. You must listen to what you do. Let it be in control. I don't step in until I know what it demands of me.

Even the ugliest swan is still more beautiful than the loveliest crown on the fence, Anna thought

There are no accidents, Anna. Everything correlates. Everything connects. Every detail bears a consequence. One instant begets the next. And the next. And the next.

It doesn’t matter whether you believe in ghosts. The ghosts believe in you.

Is that not always the case? Given any two people in a relationship, one will always love more, the other less. Right?

A man can smell a woman's sadness

Four simple chambers.A thousand complicated doors.One of them is yours.

Solitude was her anchor. A familiar misery, and anymore the safest, most sensible approach.

Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.

After all, in this world of humans, he was little better than a monster, and what did a monster have to be afraid of in the dark?

America and its demons Europe and its ghosts.

People can bear anything.

Terror made me cruel.

To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.

Be prepared. *smacks chest*

I almost envy people who say whatever they want.

I find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.

The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at.