There would never be any room in her for anything else. No room for anything but the realization of what she had done.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

Experience is a sacred education.

It is the body-complex that eats and one just does the egoism of ‘I ate.’ He is not aware that there is another entity. One simply takes on the suffering of another.

Every thought precedes an action.

How you see and depict yourself will be the exact way people will treat you--Period, Think your worth millions, people will treat you like millions, think pennies, get treated like pennies

As an entrepreneur, value creation will always be your first line of defense against business failure.

The night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently steal away.

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

They [Democrats] don't even want us around.

Busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart.

Keeping the mind happy makes work effortless. This is the skill for productivity!