Evil is the voltage of good; the urge to goodness, without the potential of evil, is trivial.

All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter.

Being, I imagine, must be very simple. It is Becoming which is so messy and which I am all for.

Absolutes are absolutely dangerous.

Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.

You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?

I've had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation.

Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.

Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him.

good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power.

Any chance beats no chance.

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

The greatest joy you can get is from giving, and the best thing that you can give is your love.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better.

In the race for love I was scratched.

It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.

It's right to trust in God; but, if you don't stand to your halliards your craft'll miss stays, and your faith'll be blown out of the bolt-ropes in the turn of a marlinspike.

If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?

Grief is not graceful.

I'm interested in longevity, timelessness, style - not fashion.