Things didn't really go away. You just learned to push them deeper.

You couldn't teach kindness, she thought. It was something you were born with. People either had it or they didn't.

Life, life.

We refuse to acknowledge something that is blatantly obvious because either we are closed or we don't know how to face it.

He stroked her back and kept a fierce grip on her like she’d fade away into one of the thousands of ghosts in this cemetery.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

Only great men have great faults.

Do you think a champion is made out of thin air? It’s through the hardships you endure that you’ll gain real strength.

The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

Every time I end a book, I look down at myself.

In Michigan recently a man won a lawsuit for substantial damages because, he claimed, a rear-end collision in his car had made him a homosexual.

People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which the desired effect has been achieved.