I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.

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?

Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.

Love is something you must accept in order to have, Naomi.

How pale the Princess is! Never have I seen her so pale. She is like the shadow of a white rose in a mirror of silver.

The reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having it crated for shipping.

Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust.

The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.

When you come to Parliament on your first day, you wonder how you ever got here. After that, you wonder how the other 263 members got here.

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.

Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.