She had of course, kept working. He liked to think she would have moved under the table to continue her task if a gun battle had broken out, but he wasn't sure.

I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you.

Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.

Religion turned some folks belligerent.

People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.

How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?

Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?

Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.

Isen wasn't a two birds with one stone kind of guy. More like one stone, two birds, a rabbit, a fox, and maybe that deer will trip over the fox and we can get him, too.

Look for mein sleepless nights, among the stars, I’ll be your guiding star...Look for mein the moments of happiness, on a green field, I’ll be your joy....

Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.

Determination takes us to some interesting places.

I have a slight oral fixation.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

I want to be my usual painstaking, cautious, slow, conservative self in analyzing it.

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.

The soul is never perfectly secure from the influence of passion; the occasional tranquility she seems to enjoy, is rather relaxation than imperturbable triumph.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

I'd desperately love England to beat the Australians.