Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.

But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded.

The bars on our cage are of our own making.

Love is best a phantom than reality, better in the chase than caught.

But how right is it to kill a man for something that is in his soul?

Pity, unlike hate, can be boxed and put away.

What are we all chasing? Nella wonders. To live, of course. To be unbound from the invisible ropes that Johannes spoke of in his study. Or to be happy in them, at least.

A piece of art only succeeds when it's creator...possesses the belief that brings it into being

You are a stone, thrown upon a lake. But the ripples you create will never make you still.

This city is like no other city in the world. It is brilliant but it is bloated, and I've never called it home

The turnip cannot thrive in the tulips patch of soil.

If you think everything is someone else's fault, you'd be wrong. If you think everything is your fault, you're also wrong. Assigning blame can keep you stuck in the problem. Move on to solutions.

I was tired of playing the goodie-two-shoes.

One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

We are like an atomic structure. We've got a causal body that's linked together.

The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.

Momentum is whatever your attitude determines it to be.

We have far too many kids. At one time in the playpen there was standing-room only. It looked like a bus stop for midgets. It used to get so damp in there, we'd have a rainbow above it.

Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society.