Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

The past isn't useful until its place in the present is found.

So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate.

Some people spend their lives failing and never notice.

That's the New York thing, isn't it. People who seem absolutely crazy going around telling you how crazy they used to be before they had therapy.

A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.

He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the wrong verbal move and find her ignorance exploding in her face.

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.

It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

A great wind is blowing and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty minutes after admitting he'd lost the argument.

Nirvana is the other side, the source of all things, where all the aggregates come from, where the templates of infinity are.

However much one tries to suppress the will of the people they eventually will have the last word.

Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.

I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.

The business of government is justice.

You meet a better class of person in pubs.

It is impossible to think about the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is impossible for a bird to fly on only one wing.

I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster