I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.", November 1913)

Embrace the fact that we are human. We are flawed, we aren’t invincible, but we are resilient, and we are alive. So we need to live as such

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.” - Bell Hooks

Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.

I'm very practical and realistic.

The more our feelings diverge, the more deeply felt they are, the greater is our obligation to grant the sincerity and essential decency of our fellow citizens on the other side.

How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!

I love Fun. They're great guys. They're incredible artists and musicians.

Today, let's be determined to see blessings in the midst of things that seem like burdens.

I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

His last words, according to De Morgan: Man follows only phantoms.

All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.