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

Potential has a shelf life.

Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

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.

There is never only one, of anyone

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.

Oh, it must be wonderful to be educated. What does it feel like?''It's like having an operation, ' said Treece. 'You don't know you've had it until long after it's over.

You have to be insane enough to live an insanely beautiful life.

Shall I come to you, a boundless drop to a boundless ocean.

Before such a prodigious career judgement is torn between blame and admiration.

There are so many people out there working with great grassroots and global and national organizations that are unsung heroes to me.

To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.

You don't want to spend much time in Germany or even France in the winter unless you're in the Alps.

We ought to get back to making America great again, which is what we're going to do. And we've already started the process.

I love swimming, swimming's my passion and I hope I swim until the last day of my life, so I really, really do enjoy swimming, but swimming for me is simply a way of carrying a message.

When I was writing in Bulgarian, I could hide behind beautiful prose.