"Die Kunst des Schreibens besteht darin, die Welt so zu beschreiben, wie sie ist, und gleichzeitig so, wie sie sein könnte."

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

Stepchildren are at greater risk because evolutionary pressures have shaped parental psychology to favor genetic offspring.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.