Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.

I've always been interested in miracles, or the miraculous of the unexplained. I don't scoff at what makes people believe or want to believe. I think I understand the tremendous attraction of the mysteries of the church to the same degree that I understand and appreciate the frustration people feel, especially believers, with the human rule-making arm of the church, with the not-miraculous part of the church - any church.

I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I can go without it for a while, but then I need it.

When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language

My brain is sending poison to my heart.

But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.