Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

I wanted to tell her secrets I hadn't even told myself yet.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

I think humor is such a personal thing, and you put a microphone in somebody's face, they're going to say something that offends somebody.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

During the race, we lose 2-4 kilos of liquids.

Demons live in many lands, but particularly in Prussia.

I'm your full blown charismatic evangelical freak daddy.

Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.

I would give worlds, if I had them, if The Age of Reason had never been published. O Lord, help! Stay with me! It is hell to be left alone.