If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.

'Torts' more or less means 'wrongs'...One of my friends said that Torts is the course which proves that your mother was right.

After a week, it's better. I miss her. I mourn her. But some peace has returned. She had been so unattainable - so young, so much a citizen of a different era - that it is hard to feel fully deprived.

The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.

Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual’s curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it.