I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.

My life burned inside me. Even such as it was, it was the only record of me, and it was my only creation, and something in me would not accept that it was insignificant.

...friendship is something you do.

Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.

If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.

The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.

..though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.

Lovers are allowed to be as cruel as anything to the one who dissappoints them.

Did anyone ever hear of an intelligent fantasy?

A bugler sounded the Last Post. Heartbreak made audible.

We get so caught up in the life we are leading and forget that we are capable of living.Caring for Eleanor by Sonia Rumzi

Men never understand what honor is, though they're always talking about it

People like to think of themselves as purists, but there is no such thing as purity, when there exists so much contact.

The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.

My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.

I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.

Maybe they say they do but I don't think many actors really enjoy trying to do a Shakespearean play.

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.