"On both sides the troops were commanded by royal princes and they massacred each other mercilessly."

“As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; youre on permanent trial.”

“And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.”

“But what difference does it make? ... When you're mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is.”

“How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!”

“I feel displaced when I'm back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don't get a cup of tea I'm going to lose my mind.”

“Critical (i.e., separating) methods apply only to the world-as-nature. It would be easier to break up a theme of Beethoven with dissecting knife or acid than to break up the soul by methods of abstract thought . Nature-knowledge and man-knowledge have neither ways nor aims in common.”

“Over the years, autism has almost been a diagnosis in the eye of the beholder, which allows for all kinds of arguments and dissension and theories and competing therapies to come into play.”

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“On one hand you want to see your subject well. On the other hand, you want to be caught off guard to retain the spontaneity. If you know your subject too well you stop seeing it.”