Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

The only obvious advantage to being an adult is that you can eat your dessert without haying sampled the vegetables.

Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

The human organism has only so much energy at its disposal. If you divert a great deal of it into any one channel, you can expect the others to collapse or atrophy. If you squander your vital energies on your emotional life, as you have been doing, plan to be physically and mentally bankrupt, as it were.

The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself.

Depression was a very active state really. Even if you appeared to an observer to be immobilized, your mind was in a frenzy of paralysis. You were unable to function, but were actively despising yourself for it.

The French would eat anything that couldn't outrun them.