Every person in therapy has a love disorder.

I grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me.

In revision, your imagination becomes deeply engaged with your material. It's when you come to know your characters and begin to perceive their motivations and values.

A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?

The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.

Drug programs began to turn their attention and money away from prevention and into maintenance. Methadone was cheaper than social workers, I suppose.

A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.

You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.

Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.

Love is always a surprise and you never get it right.

The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.

There were never enough stars in the sky to count how many times a day he fell in love with her.

I love Prospect Park-watching fireflies at night and going to the bandshell for free music.

No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in overcoming them we may grow strong, and they who have suffered are able to save.

The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

The organism feeds on negative entropy.

I voted for Stevenson as opposed to Eisenhower because I thought he would make a good president, but against my conscience because I thought that he was too good for the job.

Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.