She can go places we cannot, associate with people we cannot, understand things about society types and women that we never can. (Why Mr. Burke hires Violet Strange.)

Setting that little girl loose in her society would be like putting a fox in with the chickens. (Violet Strange's detective boss.)

If you are not thinking differently, you are not exercising your freedom.

When you choose to love someone who is no longer attractive to you, he or she will become attractive.

The most welcome and painful moments of the life is within marriage.

You have nothing to lose. You had nothing to begin with.

I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny.

In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.

Reality! But what does this word mean? Each has his own reality. I draw upon my personal reality upon the dark side of myself, my unconscious.

America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

I feel the world is over-saturated with [brand] products, and it isn't about what you're wearing as much as it is about what message you are trying to convey.