To leave a book is like leaving the better part of oneself.

Friendship is a form of love. In fact, you don't know how it starts or why. It is subject to the caprices of time. It can grow or die without a reason. It can last a lifetime.

Above all else she mustn't think that using her body will help her attain her goal. Men use women who play seductively, and then they look down on them.

I dream of continuing to dream.

The waves have the habit of going forward and then flowing back.

The future is created through memory.

One writes what one lives, even if not in a literal way. Someone who has gone through an unhappy love tends to describe unhappy loves, even if they have nothing to do with their own.

A winter without snow seems depressing, lacking.

Falling in love with a story is like falling in love with a person. It tends to occupy your life, your thoughts. You can't do anything else for a long time.

I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better.

Something struck me in Africa, in black Africa, where polygamy is legal: the solitary woman is the rule there, from at an extremely young age, and the children are always the mother's responsibility.

They’re evacuating the younger kids and everyone’s meeting in the Great Hall to get organized. We’re fighting.

If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all.

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

You're not on your own. You're doing things with other people. This is very important for me.

I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity

I experienced American golf courses when I was younger and played a lot of USGA and AJGA tournaments.

It is satisfaction to a man to do the proper works of a man.

Roosevelt understands that there are things that are worth surrendering your career for, like defending the country against [Adolf] Hitler.

A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.

Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.