And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my tears.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

There is no answer for life, creation, or mankind. We make the answer.

Health care got done because there were a lot of people out there who aren't professional politicians, but are citizens, who pushed for it even when the politics was hard.

My story has resonated around the world. I am just Catherine, I just like to run. And I'll run with opportunities.

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I'll tell you what you value.

An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon.

He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.