By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.

One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.

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The trick, he supposed, was never to lose sight of the theoretical possibility while not for a moment taking the idea remotely seriously.

Welcome to the future, she thought, surveying all this wordage and tat. All our tragedies and triumphs, our lives and deaths, our shames and joys are just stuffing for your emptiness.

One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher.

[M]y determined and strenuous endeavours to take in absolutely nothing of what I had regarded as entirely the most irrelevant part of my schooling had patently not met with total success

I have seen people who find that grief gives them something they never had before, and no matter how terrible and real their loss they choose to hug that awfulness to them rather than push it away.

[T]here can be a form of vanity in grief that is indulged rather than suffered.

the ignobility of thought and action that desperation born of indigence produces.

Ribbons! Long ones, short ones, ones for every mood." He does a little dance to the singsong rhythm. "Thin ones, thick ones, and ones to tie your shoes!

The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.

All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. Its kind of self-therapy.

The first time I met Bill Clinton was actually 1988.

I'm really surprised how many people knew me as Gina Carano. MMA has a beautiful fan base.

Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.

I have a really simple wardrobe. I wear a low-scoop tee every day with a tux or leather jacket and tux pants or black jeans. That's pretty much it.

He who practices Tasawwuf without learning Sacred Law corrupts his faith, while he who learns Sacred Law without practicing Tasawwuf corrupts himself. Only he who combines the two proves true.

great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

It's much better to say, "If the herd is running, I'm running with those guys." And humans have herd mentality.