I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.

I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.

To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.

But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

I know gray areas too well. I write for silent audiences.

Your intentions create your experiences.

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.

You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea; And mid the twilight there hovers A shadowy figure o'er me.

You must unite your constituents around a common cause and connect with them as human beings.

X-Men films have always been big, and necessarily so, because of the stories they have to tell.

I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens.

The hero is never the star of the story.

In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.