We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.

I deserve passion," she said. "I deserve to be loved- in every way. I deserve a man who'll give his whole heart, not the part he isn't using at the moment.

Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the better the world liked seeing them fall.

Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can't we be other planets? Why must we be moons?

We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.

They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.

He was a man. Men always had lewd thoughts. It was perfectly natural and normal

I should like to see you try.

I'm no good at being good.

Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost isn't the way to do it.

Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.

Nothing guarantees a person effortless wealth as when his SEASON comes.

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God.

He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B.B. King was a disc jockey and he had a radio program, 15 minutes a day, over in West Memphis, Arkansas and he would play the blues.

The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

My parents really encouraged me.

I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind. I want to come down to their physical limitations and up to their sense of wonder and awe.

Out of Eternity the new day is born; Into Eternity at night will return.