Elizabeth Bowen

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.