The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe.

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.

Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things

We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings.

I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task.

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.

Novels are just another kind of cross-dressing, aren't they?

No one gives joy or sorrow. ... We gather the consequences of our own deeds.

When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding.

You think sometimes that maybe if the person who hurt you is clobbered you will feel a little better. But it actually doesn't.

You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like.

Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.

Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.

I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.

Ritual is to the internal sciences what experiment is to the external sciences.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.