Newspapers are even worse for me than ice cream; headlines, and the big issues that generate the headlines, are pure fat.

We invent what we love and what we fear.

My brain is sending poison to my heart.

If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?

If you feel so strongly about what's on television, don't have one.

Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.

A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.