It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right

The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it. And anybody who does not want an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it, either. Government office should be received like a child’s Christmas present, with surprise and delight. Instead it is usually received like a diploma, an anticlimax that never seems worth the struggle to earn it.

If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?

Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.