Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them. If they didn't, they couldn't endure.

Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?

Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems.

The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.

Authors do not supply imaginations.

I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.

that's what everybody wants, just a little more money, even the people who have it.

I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.

Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, though I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.

Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

I have a son in Barcelona whom I am madly in love with.

And the president should be doing more about education than saying, 'Lights, camera, action.'

Gotta get rid of these free radicals, but first I need to figure out what they are.

Oh thrice and four times happy... those who plant cabbages.

If you think it's worth writing a book about then that means you suspect that you're not the only one. You suspect that it has something to do with the larger patterns of your culture.

Players' attention spans get less and less as they progress.

The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.

A good memory is needed once we have lied. [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]