The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's impulse to go straightway to see her.

I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do.

We have the librarians on our side. We have *justice* on our side.

The fight isn't over until you win.

Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of what has happened and the imagining of what is to come.

When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?

Cruel World has been my favourite track from Ultraviolence ever since I recorded it.

The best propaganda omits rather than invents

One of the most significant characteristics of healthy self esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at war either with himself or with others.

The essence of practice is always the same: instead of falling prey to a chain reaction of revenge or self-hatred, we gradually learn to catch the emotional reaction and drop the story lines.

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?