I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.

Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.

I love a woman with a relaxed attitude.

If you don't fight for him, you lose! Fight for him! ~Nana Osaki

I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad.

My journey continues, because I've, you know, conquered a lot. And I know how to conquer the rest.

We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.

Scars are the price which every believer pays for his loyalty to Christ.