There is never only one, of anyone

Potential has a shelf life.

Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.

This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.

In my dreams of this city I am always lost.

Last night I felt the approach of nothing. Not too close but on its way, like a wingbeat, like the cooling of the wind, the slight initial tug of an undertow.

The fact is that I hate this city. I've hated it so long I can hardly remember feeling any other way about it.

I was born to serve.

When you trust someone, you don't need to know everything.

Being bored is an insult to oneself.

The condition for a miracle is difficulty, however the condition for a great miracle is not difficulty, but impossibility.

This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom--the very fashion of which "passeth away.

All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels.

In a democracy, power is not permanent.

Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.

In order to be treated fairly and equally, chidren have to be treated differently.

think of it this way," he said "It took nine months to get you born, so doesn't it figure it would take nine months to get you dead?