I'm sure I'll know it by the time I'm 80.

There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.

Marriage is a great institution but I'm not ready for an institution.

I used my captors names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in return.

We don't even know who's in the Academy.

For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.

In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.

I guess you can say I was a late bloomer.

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

Keep your goals in front of you, and your fears behind you.