Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all.

Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.

Nothing fails like failure

Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

Streets paved with opal sadness, Lead me counterclockwise, to pockets of joy, And jazz.

The rejection of knowledge (ignorance) attracts a reaction from God.

Good sports facilities are a blessing.

Affirmation plus action equals miracles.

But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.

The only thing on my mind now is getting that World Series ring.

You need to get one thing done well, or else you don't have permission to do anything else.

You and I have never liked each other, Rose. If I’ve got to kill someone, it might as well be you.

If you have an idea that seems worth doing, don't wait to hire other people and get funding and all those things. Just start doing it, wait to see what happens, and then iterate on that.

He attacked us. What was I supposed to do? Invite him to dinner? (Sin)