"Be clear about what you want to accomplish, and whether the circumstances surrounding you are actively helping you toward the goal."

“She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do. A life made up of advances that were actually frantic retreats and victories that were concealed defeats.”

Source : Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.134, Vintage

“It was as if, before she`d met him, her blood had circulated grayly around her body, and now ir was all oxygenated and red. She was petrified of becoming the half-alive person she`d been before.”

“I've taken all the scandals back and made them part of my story and my music.”

“In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it."”

“The thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human. They're full of flaws as much as they are full of heroics. I think the reason that people love them and hate them so much is because, in some way, they always see a mirror of themselves in them, and you can always understand them on some level. Sometimes it's a terrifyingly dark mirror that's held up. ”

“I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process.”

“Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.”

Source : Kirkpatrick Sale (2017). “Human Scale Revisited: A New Look at the Classic Case for a Decentralist Future”, p.64, Chelsea Green Publishing

“I don't want my wife to sleep with anyone but me, and I want to give her the same respect.”