Sometimes, everyone is right. Not always and not even usually, but once in a while, everyone is right.

Steampunk is what happens when goths discover brown

It's funny what they say about men in uniform - how people think women just can't resist 'em. Fact is, I think we're just pleased to see a man groomed, bathed, and wearing clothes that fit him.

It was a train full of strangers, and they were all the same.

I've heard it said that God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal. We'd see what Mr. Colt could do for a woman.

You're a smart boy. Or if you're not, you ought to be.

And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.

She was thirty-five, and she did not look a minute younger.

I hate to make the comparison here, but think of me as one of those expensive boutiques. If you have to ask about the cost, you probably can’t afford me.

In California there were nuggets the size of walnuts lying on the ground—or so it was said, and truth travels slowly when rumors have wings of gold.

The distance between an honest Christian mystic and a fortune-teller is sometimes less than half a whisper. Less than a pot of tea or the space between two book covers.

If the difficult tasks are completed first, then the remaining tasks seem easy.

If my decision is wrong, at least I will have learned something new. There is always next time.

I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands

Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.

It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.

Whether two birds of a feather fly or fall, it'll be together.

We are the shadow cast by real people. And that shadow changes shape as the news cycle changes shape, so you always have fresh dirt to dig in.

You can fall into a trap, worrying too much about what the audience might think, rather than going from the inside out.