“There are two kinds of perfect: The one you can never achieve, and the other, by just being yourself.”
“I have two maxims that I believe, dear girl. One, if you can control yourself, you can control others. Two, if you can control information, you can control others.”
“Before you can achieve peace with others, you must find it in yourself first”
“Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.”
“One can never help being born into perfection.”
“Perfection is some mythical state that we can never achieve”