Men do, I've found, accept the most errant nonsense from a well dressed woman

It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head.

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love.

Most damning of phrases: He meant well.

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe.

That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.

Some people are good only because they are afraid of punishment. These justify why we need government

Sorry if I can't be the right monster for you Bella.

There were precisely two groups of people who desperately wanted airport security to be browbeaten into giving suspicious passengers a pass: terrorists and Democrats.

It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.

There is no failure except the failure of trying.

In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface.

[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now its nascent.

The vanished lives of all are filled with many shames. Therefore do not judge.