All romantic novels end the same way, but it's the process of getting there that provides all the enjoyment.

I loved books, even as I loved the similar way opium had of transporting a mind elsewhere

Lovely thoughts came flying to meet me like birds. They weren't my thoughts. I couldn't think anything half so exquisite. They came from somewhere.

You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!

I've never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

The greatest thing you do as a leader may not be what you do as a leader but who watches you do what you do.

In fashion, there are so many gangs, if you identify too much with one, you get caught - I would lose my freedom.

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

We've become increasingly addicted to consumption of goods that we don't produce ourselves, and a lot of the manufacturing has gone overseas.

He wanted this someone to see how much he hurt.

[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.