I am not in love with you," she said. "It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly spinsters.

I deserve passion," she said. "I deserve to be loved- in every way. I deserve a man who'll give his whole heart, not the part he isn't using at the moment.

Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the better the world liked seeing them fall.

Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can't we be other planets? Why must we be moons?

We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.

They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.

He was a man. Men always had lewd thoughts. It was perfectly natural and normal

I should like to see you try.

I'm no good at being good.

Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost isn't the way to do it.

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.

For life, nature is our best teacher.

I get up and I bless the light thin clouds and the first twittering of birds and the breathing air and smiling face of the hills.

And he that will go to bed sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.

I have three words for you," EMT Guy said. "Possible internal bleeding." I turned back to him. "Don't you think if I was bleeding internally, I'd know somewhere deep inside? Like, internally?

I'm always at my best when I'm fighting a guy who insults me..questions my integrity; it lights more fire in me.

The three toughest fighters I ever fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Robinson. I fought Sugar so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic.

The book. Calming object. Held in the hand.

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

Words of the world are the life of the world.