Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

The more you talk about them, the more important they will feel. The more you listen to them, the more important you will make them feel.

That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.

Wormholes don't exist because the only way they would exist is if they were seeded with exotic material created by an intelligence far beyond our own. Something would have to make one.

You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden.

Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.

The whole concert of animate nature arose entirely from annoying noises.

I'll never retire. I like what I'm doing.

Through our hardest times we have endured. Into our brightest times we are expanding.

No on should pass an American in uniform without saying "Thank you, we are grateful." Always mindful that they are prepared to risk all their dreams so that all of us can reach ours.