It was deflating to realize how much my own family's quality of life might improve if I replaced myself with a Fundamentalist stay-at-home daughter.

Weapons and technology may help win wars, but it is only ideas that have the power to truly change the world.

There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness.

No new sect ever had humor; no disciples either, even the disciples of Christ.

If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.

Our tongues, fluent in lover's kiss.

It's dangerous business, thinking you can make people over.

I should be a postage stamp. That’s the only way I’ll ever get licked!

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care for nae-body.

Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.