Galleries are frightening places, places of evaluation, of judgement.

Potential has a shelf life.

Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.

This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.

In my dreams of this city I am always lost.

There is never only one, of anyone

Last night I felt the approach of nothing. Not too close but on its way, like a wingbeat, like the cooling of the wind, the slight initial tug of an undertow.

Life is like a box of chocolates.

This will never come again

Wasted time means wasted lives.

I am Jewish, but I love Christmas, as most Jews with any taste do, because Hanukkah is lame.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Caballine likes me to be masterful. She calls me her stallion.

Culture is something that we all share and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

Mine's [fans] a lot of like weird guys in prison. So I don't need to answer them.

As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.

If you know both yourself and your enemy, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss.