Rearing a family is probably the most difficult job in the world. It resembles two business firms merging their respective resources to make a single product. All the potential headaches of that operation are present when an adult male and an adult female join to steer a child from infancy to adulthood.

Problems are not the problem: coping is the problem.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

A gentleman sitting in spectacles before an old ledger, and writing down pitiful remembrances of his own condition, is a quaint and ridiculous object.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.

He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

In contemplation and reverie, one thought introduces another perpetually; and it is by similarity, or the hooking of one upon the other, that the process of thinking is carried on.

Case fell into the prison of his own flesh.

Time is money, but also money is money.

Since then she had changed so much in her thoughts, in her ways, even in her looks, that she might wonder she knew herself--except that the changes were all in the direction of becoming more and more herself.

Coarse necessities of physical existence drag him from the heights of thought into the mart of economic strife and gain.

But he had gained a perspective of thought in which every extreme was seen as a half-truth,

The Earth is what we all have in common.

Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.

When I went back home, I was constantly being reminded, I'm an African woman, and so there are certain things I shouldn't do, certain ambitions that I should not entertain. That was a problem for me because I had never thought of myself as an African woman, never thought of myself as a woman to begin with. For me the limit was my capacity, my capability.

Sometimes we become bound by other people's thoughts because we are not sure about ourselves.

The wound kills that does not bleed.

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts it becomes an epidemic. p901

Thought tends to collect in pools.

The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.

I thought I had a type but I don't really have a type anymore. I just look for a girl who doesn't take herself too seriously.

I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.