How strange it was that a dream, once realized, could quickly turn mundane.

Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup.

I think the posture of confidence can serve you well. I'm not sure what's to be gained by sitting at your computer and beating yourself up.

Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.

I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's the enemy when I'm writing short stories.

If you get discouraged about a section of a novel, that can be more catastrophic than getting discouraged about an individual story.

I, the lone inhabitant of my body and life, am inescapably large to myself, but also ridiculously, inconceivably small.

Everyone smiles in the same language, Happiness knows no frontiers, no age. No difference thar makes us feel apart if a smile can win even a broken heart.

…because he was far more interested in allowing his disciples to cultivate a relationship and trust with and in him than leading them to a place of "arrival".

Regardless of whether luck or coincidence is involved, desires directed in the right way have a tendency to manifest.

Love- if not reciprocated, comes with an expiry date, no matter how strongly we beg to differ.

If you can't love two people at once, there's something wrong with you.

If you think about a child that is born and how it's born, if it has racism in his genes, every child that is raised up to hit or beat someone up with anger and resentments.

I entered his apartment without being invited, which is perfectly fine if you're not a vampire.

God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.

The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude.

The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits