"Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries"

"Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship"

"Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family"

"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival"

"No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship"

"I think in terms of family, in terms of relationships, in terms of work, competition to be the favorite, to be the noticed, to be the one - I don't know if it exists for all personalities, but I know for sure it did with me"

"Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside"

"The one who loves the least, controls the relationship"

"I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband"

"A real parish is a wondrously beautiful web of human relationship which is given meaning by the man who is Himself the meaning of life"

"Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged"