Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.

The world didn't stop because we weren't in it anymore.

All my integrity seemed to lie in saying No.

Freedom was the price of privacy.

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

She wasn't blotto, she was plotting.

You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him.""So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.

In his humble opinion, she possessed the least appealing traits a woman can put on display: undiscriminating curiosity and nonsensical verbosity.

If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.