I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed.

A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.

Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth.

The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.

Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.

Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.

Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.

Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them.

History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women.

Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events

Proof, once again, that reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one's attitude.

If people are not in the process of production, they don’t deserve anything.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

As for whether what happened in Britain improves[Donald] Trump's chances of winning, I don't think so. He has the same chances; we may just be more aware of what they are now.

Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

I'm always going back and forth between wanting to do stuff that's abstract and stuff that's just telling everybody to listen.

There's nothing political about American literature.

I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.