People like to be listened to, as every researcher knows – every researcher, every writer, every spy.

Much, maybe too much, has been written about literature.

A woman is human, obviously, but she represents a slightly different kind of humanity.

To love a book is, above all, to love its author: we want to meet him again, we want to spend our days with him.

I was about as political as a bath towel.

...intimacy isn't something men talk about. They may talk about politics, literature, stocks, or sports, depending on the man, but about their love lives they keep silent, even to their dying breath.

Intimacy isn’t something men talk about.

I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is.

Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.

If you're a girl and you don't fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man's perspective, then you're a little bit at a loss.

One nice thing that I have discovered about Los Angeles is the enthusiasm with which people dress.

I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

The tougher the job, the greater the reward.

Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature?

Trauma never goes away completely, it changes perhaps, softens some with time, but never completely goes away.

In other characters, it's driven by insecurity, or it's driven by fear, or - there's always a driver. And all the physical manifestations, you need your way in.

I think Arminianism is death to Christianity!