Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred; The love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.

What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even know themselves. Nobody understands anybody.

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.

It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.