All writing is a process of elimination.

Once you allow anyone to terrorize you, you will be terrorized all your life. Terror corrupts. Pretty soon you'll be terrorizing others. ... Life doesn't mean anything if you can't rid yourself of fear.

There are as many jealousies in life as there are different flowers or trees or animals.

innocence is the hardest thing to prove.

It is a great blessing to be able to forget, but it takes a lot of wisdom to know what should be forgotten.

when you start to bore yourself and others, that's when you begin to get old.

Scientists have a second brain where other people have their hearts.