[Responding to repeated questions about traveling in Africa without a husband:] I am looking for him.

West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with

It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with me.

I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible.

You are going to die in front of dozens of witnesses, and none of them will do a thing to help you or avenge you. Because they know exactly what you know: The world is ending.

The only other people who have had experiences similar to those of this man were locked up inside institutions for the criminally insane. The difference is, this guy gets business cards.

Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

A disciple is a disciple maker.

When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.

There's no rage like old lady rage, just as there's no tenderness like old lady tenderness.

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration.

If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.