You desire the end but close your eyes to the means. You want the garden to be beautiful, provided that the smell of manure is kept well away from your fastidious nose.

Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.

I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.

It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.

We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we endured birth. You can’t share either experience.

The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead.

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

You drive me crazy!""You were always crazy. I just highlight it.

How'd you get Magnus to let Jace leave?" "Traded him for Alec," Clary said.

First of all, it's a curse. Voodoo. As soon as a guy gets put on the cover of The Hockey News, it's like Sports Illustrated. He goes right into the tank.

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

I think with any songwriter the first 1,000 songs are always terrible.

Sometimes I just walk through; I just show up, as in The Other Sister.

If you don't look after your body, you'll have nowhere to live

When information rubs against information the results are startling and effective. The perrenial quest for involvement, fill-in, takes many forms.

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.