It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

I apologized to her once for spending less time with her, but she blew it off. "You're in love. That makes you actually kind of boring to people who aren't in love. You know, the sane ones.

Think big from the beginning.

Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.

Even though we know sexual assault is still dramatically underreported, I think women are much more empowered today than they used to be.

When I dive, I dive into a different dimensional plane. I am not in this world anymore. Someone might see the body, but the spirit has left. It has gone everywhere or nowhere.

Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.

Hemingway's talent was so outsized, that I feel like I can forgive him a lot of his trespasses to have achieved what he did achieve.

Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.