Oh, I've no patience with these romances. They're the ruin of all order. It's a thousand pities they ever happened

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.

For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.

She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.

you roll me out flat

Men don’t think, high and low-alike, they take what a woman does for them for granted.

I only want one thing of men, and that is, that they should leave me alone.

It was the talk that mattered supremely: the impassioned exchange of talk. Love was only a minor accompaniment.

Life makes two promises, one, it promises to be good, and two, it promises to be bad. Cherish the good and be strong during the bad.

The conventional wisdom of fandom is that you must give your fans anything they want. But I've never felt that that's a healthy attitude - and that comes from being a Star Wars fan.

All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

Dr. King once said, "You cannot legislate goodness, and you cannot pass a law to force someone to respect you. The only way to social justice, in a capitalist country, is through economic parity."

I lovingly do everything I can to assist my body in maintaining perfect health

The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.

A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

The ability to infer the specific content of another person's thoughts and feelings.