What matters most is that we learn from living.
I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
Oh, no, I'm not saying she isn't a nut -- she is -- but I've noticed before that sometimes someone like that behaves quite ordinarily with everybody, manages everything, you'd never think she was a nu...
Often the mass emotions are those which seem the noblest, best and most beautiful. And yet, inside a year, five years, a decade, five decades, people will be asking, How could you have believed that?...
My sense of urgency is very simple,' said the professor, 'I've remembered that much. It's because what I have to remember has to do with time running out. And that's what anxiety is, in a lot of peopl...
Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship.
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of suble air.
I feel sick when I look at the parody synopsis, at the letters from the film company... The novel is 'about' a colour problem. I said nothing in it that wasn't true. But the emotion it came out of was...
As for Anna she was thinking: If I join in now, in a what’s-wrong-with-men session, then I won’t go home, I’ll stay for lunch and all afternoon, and Molly and I will feel warm and friendly, all barrie...
All those years were now seeming like a betrayal of what she really was. While her body, her needs, her emotions–all of herself–had been turning like a sunflower after one man, all that time she had b...
Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares.
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
Комплексът за вина е почти определение на майчинството в нашата просветена епоха.
There are people in the world all the time who know the professor said. But they keep quiet. They just move about quietly, saving the people who know they are in the trap. And then, for the ones who h...
The young often have moments of clear thinking, which as they grow older become fewer, and muddied. He had kept alive in some part of him a knowledge that he was destined to do something or other. He...
It was not a question of Philip's having lost hold. He had never grasped hold. Something had not happened that should have happened: a teacher, or someone, should have said: This one, Philip Fowler, h...
I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.