She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what she was so good ….

But intolerant,narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host,change form,and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, ….

Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind….

In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually trading….

Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system.

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden..

If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price..

Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If….

Here, too, a brand-new day is beginning. It could be a day like all the others, or it could be a day remarkable enough in many ways to remain in the ….

She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceri….

In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion..

In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the r….

Of course you got rights, the law's on your side, but sometimes the law takes a long time to kick in and so it gets put in the hands of us poor sucke….

Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely..

Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself..

But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me..

When you're young, you think you can handle anything. By the time you find out otherwise, it's already too late. You got a stocking wrapped around yo….

People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring..

You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's your life. Basically, you gotta go w….

The pillow smells like the sunlight, a precious smell..

I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally….