When the anesthesia of love wears off, you suffer the pain of consequence.

You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

I had thus learned to push down my feelings, to force myself to not care, to do nothing and let things happen, come what may.

Life is not just to run and run, it is also not just to have fun. Life is complete when we get something worthwhile done.

Staying in a relationship with someone who doesn't love him/herself, is a direct reflection of how much you love and value yourself.

…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

Where everyone knows your name, and a safe place to raise a family.

Monster or not, he was risking his neck to save her.

The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.

I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).

I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.