A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.

The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester

I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.

We believe world peace is inevitable.

Your own gown is most delicately suitable, both to the occasion and to yourself,' to be translated: Your gown is insipid and entirely forgettable. If you wear it on every other occasion this entire season, no one will notice or care.

some kinds of beauty did not heal, but hollowed the pain even deeper.

I believe in an individual soul which travels through eternity. This life is far from all there is--in fact, it is a minute part, simply an antechamber, a deciding place where we choose the light from the dark, where we come to know what we truly value.