There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.

I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much more expository and didactic and more about subjects or ideas.

You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. ... How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away.

You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.

She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself.

It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.