We cannot stop wanting. Wanting is the tireless engine of life itself.

You are the cause of your suffering. That means that you alone have the power to change it.

Fear is the will's little baby. It arises with the possibility you will lose what you desire.

All the time she writing the world had continued.

Every physical response, every psychological change and every mental transformation starts with the mind.

Problem does not lie in being a husband

We all spend our lives living beside the people we could have been.

Only one-tenth of what you write will make it into your manuscript, but when you knock on that tenth” – I rap my knuckles on the table – “you’ll hear oaken solidity, not sawdust and glue.

...ever plagued by the naive hope that this timemy intuition might be mistaken...

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

When you put your mind to it, you usually find that there is a way to achieve what you want after all.

As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.