Laughter was like an enormous trap waiting patiently in the room with them

Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all

and something about the stillness or my state of mind reminded me of the world's remarkable capacity to carry on in every place at once.

To exist is to change to change is to mature to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.

When many plants are out of the picture in winter, it becomes clear that many of them should be pitched out. It's also much easier to do that before they come up and begin to talk to us.

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

The big trouble is not really who isn't in the Hall of Fame, but who is. It was established for a select few.

At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.