In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.

I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.

Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.

The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.