Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.

It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.

She was full of some strange energy that morning. Her every movement had purpose and life and she seemed to find satisfaction in every little thing.

He was a mystery to her, and every time she tried to solve him it caused her a little more pain. But when she tired to give him up he pursued her in her thoughts, stronger each time.

She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.

Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.

Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath her fitted bodice.

A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.

They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.

Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.

She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life

The world is more exacting than God himself.

Frankly I like the fact that I no longer fit the young beauty type-people take me more seriously now.

I believe in the family. I believe in marriage, and I think it's such a great institution. I think men should be able to marry each other, and women should be able to marry each other.

All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD.

There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it's really cool to be smart.

I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.

Never get so fascinated by the extraordinary that you forget the ordinary.

Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes

I have never seen myself as leading for others. What's important is that I know who I am. Not completely. But I'm coming around third base.