"The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly."

"I want to be able to look back and say, 'I lived a full life.'"

"I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, not only important but right. He was a man of his time, and he had the defects of his time, as well as the virtues."

"I want to be remembered as a writer who wrote about the human heart in conflict with itself."

"I wish I could have found another way to live, but I couldn't. I had to write."