Nobody knows everything—one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn—and everybody makes mistakes.

Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar.

So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom.

Was it an insult to be called a “woman writer”? Didn’t it have a taint of, say, the “woman driver”?

The better the writer, the more complicated the dangler.

You can never learn/improve if you are too proud to accept criticism.

Your level of consciousness defines the beauty of your life and destiny.

Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.

Why's it gotta be Ôtani for me? I don't know because I have way too many reasons to choose from! He's the one for me, that's all. He just is.

My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind.

But what I really want is to just swim around in a warm baby pool of these friends, jump in their dry leaf pile-to rub them all over myself, without words and clothes.

I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it’s my stuff.

Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.

We’ve been given the covenant community because we need each other, and together we’ll be more mature, experience more life, and know more joy than we ever would apart from one another.