Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

People who keep journals have life twice.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.