There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.

Every second a seeker can start over, For his life's mistakesAre initial draftsAnd not the final version.

I suppose kids probably know less boredom these days - or at least a different kind of boredom.

If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be argued.

It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book.

When somebody you've known for 20 years, and with whom you have a full context, winks at you or whatever, it can be huge. I think in a sense what you're trying to re-create in fiction is that.

It is better to go stumbling, and weeping, and crawling like a worm along the way of love, than to give up and choose some other way.

When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice.

The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone.

Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men this restfulness has a beneficial effect, but after a time it becomes tedious.