Sometimes, the waves grow hushed, but the sea is always there, touching, caressing, eating the earth...

The color has faded out of the sky. It is grey, becoming darker as the world turns herself round a little more. The clouds are long and black and ragged, like the wings of stormbattered dragons.

There is no suspension, no whispered prayer for silk to stop my fall. There is only the falling, and it goes on and on, in fierce silence and sharp bursts of breath.

This is how women self-sabotage and self-destruct. Unless we have constant witnesses to our hard work, we are convinced we pull off every day of our lives through smoke and mirrors. (27)

Take a perfect day add six hours of rain and fog and you have instant London.

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right.

The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.

Everyone's born confident, and everything's taken away from you.

Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.

All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.