We should read other people's books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer's thought that help us to do so.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.

Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.

Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.