there must be a routine to life, a framework to hang life on. Routines were what kept you sane, gave you something to do at this moment and at that, definite places to go, positive things to do. Abandon it and that way madness lies.

When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.

Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.

we dislike those we've injured.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.