It was the talk that mattered supremely: the impassioned exchange of talk. Love was only a minor accompaniment.

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.

For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.

She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.

Oh, I've no patience with these romances. They're the ruin of all order. It's a thousand pities they ever happened

you roll me out flat

Men don’t think, high and low-alike, they take what a woman does for them for granted.

I only want one thing of men, and that is, that they should leave me alone.

I said I love youwhen what I meant to say was"I’m afraid of being alone."I said I need youwhen what I meant to say was"I need to learn how to love myself.

On Tony Gwynn: it was a wonder that such an exuberant man could be so patient.

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

I think there's a sense of power women don't get till we're older when we say, 'This is the line, and you're not stepping over it.

The people I still talk to are some of the old Galaxy players all over the place. That's a bond that's pretty special.

The policies of the Democratic Party have always been in cultural consonance with the culture of the working class. And, somehow, they missed that.

Being anxious is the worst feeling in the world.

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

I'm ensconced in the soul … and I look around and everything is love.

People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.