Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Sarcasm is the language of people whose emotions are dying.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Like a wolf, she lived by instinct.

Self-hatred is the best vehicle for making people do as they’re told because they are hungry to get approval.

Every great achiever nurtures a positive mindset.

True compassion does not sit on the laps of renovation; it dives with an approach to reconstruction. Don't throw a coin at a begger. Rather, destroy his source of poverty.

It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

My confessions did nothing to alter this situation, but for the first time in my life I felt that somebody actually knew me. Three somebodies, to be exact. Two were roaming the highway in a Cadillac, doing God knows what with a CB radio, but the other was

Terror is a powerful means of policy and one would have to be a hypocrite not to understand this.

Did you hear me, Zach? I care about you.” “Okay,” I said. “It’s okay with me that you care about me. But can we please not talk about it? Would that be okay with you?” “Yeah, that would be okay,” he said.

Even your sweetest character has claws, no matter how well they may be retracted and hidden (hidden even from herself).