Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.

In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.

No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.

Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.

We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.