Parents must be treated with respect, whether one wants to strangle them or not.

I deserve passion," she said. "I deserve to be loved- in every way. I deserve a man who'll give his whole heart, not the part he isn't using at the moment.

Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the better the world liked seeing them fall.

Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can't we be other planets? Why must we be moons?

We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.

They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.

He was a man. Men always had lewd thoughts. It was perfectly natural and normal

I should like to see you try.

I'm no good at being good.

Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost isn't the way to do it.

All the material wealth cannot be substituted for the spiritual, physical, emotion and mental well-being.

Harold Bloom weeps for me.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.

I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

We respect law, when the law respects our needs. Whenever legality clashes with morality, legality should be opposed and morality should be upheld.

I just hope you have as much fun letting it spin as I did putting it together.

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.

I have spent most of my life most happily making plans for others to carry out.