(the modern writer’s aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole.
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.
The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.
I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly.
People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.
My parents were gigantic influences on me. I had a deep hunger to impress my father, who was a professor and an intellectual. I wanted his approval.
I watched 'Holiday' in college, and that was when I had my first fantasy of being Katharine Hepburn, standing at the top of the staircase in a huge Hollywood mansion.
There is a difference between using a made-up name and using real people as pseudonyms. People are not costumes you can wear. They are flesh and blood.
Writers are in control of editing processes - making a sentence better, cutting out a paragraph. But the initial outpouring has very little to do with conscious control or manipulation.
If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.
I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.
Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me.
If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.
If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.
Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.
Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest.
The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.
You gotta eat right, you gotta have healthy habits, you know, and balance out your decadence with a healthy lifestyle during the day.
