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

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.

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.

The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating.

The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath.

Beauty draws us with a single hair.

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

What you do to China is you say if you don't behave we're going to have to start taxing your goods coming into our country.

Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.

Friendship is the strongest bond in the world.

I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.

Not everybody's the perfect person in the world. I mean everyone kills people, murders people, steals from you, steals from me, whatever. I think that people need a second chance.

People are not their behaviors.

[Some] songs are all so detailed and in-depth that it takes forever to finish them.