Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Time is how you spend your love.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

A purposeless and goalless life is meaningless

Back then, he'd have to leave at the end of August for the start of school, so the week before Labor Day became it's own tiny season of gloom, like a hundred Sunday nights crowded together.

The life of a Christian is an education for higher service.

Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.

I was obsessed with vampires when I was 13 or 14.

To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.

We need to receive empathy to give empathy.

Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.

We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.

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