When the time is gone, you can never get it back.

An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.

Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something.

I don't want to go to the heaven that I learned about when I was a kid. To me, it seems boring.

Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.

Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.