Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it is an occupational hazard.

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.

That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

I choose to love more and more every day.

the past is a liarfull of promises it can't keepbut like a foolish first loveyou keep going back to it

The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.

Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs I would enter.

I returned to confirm there can be no return.

To me I've just really, really found a relaxed, peaceful side of my life and I'm enjoying it.

If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish!

It should be a crime to make a profit off somebody being sick.

I'm not afraid to be a jerk or anything and laugh at myself anymore.

It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.