When nothing is sure everything is possible.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all.

Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.

Nothing fails like failure

Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

The sacred time will define the sacred event.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

If I ever did cross over I would like to do it tactfully. I don't want to offend anyone in country. Can you have the best of both worlds? I sure like the idea of it!

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down

I was not born to get stuff done. I was born to dream it and then move towards it.

Guilt is the teacher, love is the lesson.

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.