emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

Most of our love is shabby stuff, but there is always a thin line of gold, the bit of pure love on which all the rest depends -- and which redeems all the rest.

People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.

A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.

My heart was beating like an army on the march.

We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom