Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.

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?

If it isn't urgent, worry about it later

Spiritual warfare is the unseen battle God wages on your behalf.

Whatever their failings as a class may be, and however likely to lose their immortal souls, lawyers do not generally lose papers.

But our leaders of today have decided it's more important to be popular, to say and do what's easy, and say yes rather than to say no, when no is what is required.

Israel deserves America's friendship in reality - not just in rhetoric.

I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

I believe that Willy Nelson is the hillbilly Dalai Lama.

Whenever you undertake to do something, do it thoroughly or not at all.

Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!