There are women who have forgotten that to be a woman doesn't simply mean humiliation, doesn't simply mean bitterness. I haven't forgotten it yet...I'm not going to forget it.

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.

People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore

If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody.

The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.

This was not as real as my despairing sense that nothing was real for me, nothing would ever be real for me again – unless, indeed, this sensation of falling was reality…

The real troubles with living is that living is so banal.

She fitted in my arms, she always had, and the shock of holding her caused me to feel that my arms had been empty since she had been away.

The author points out that the moral failure of Abigail Adams' brother focused her on disciplining her children, and herself, so that they did not come to the same end.

Water generates electricity and hence if we waste water, we will be in the dark world.

The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.

When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil.

Passions are the gales of life.

People always want the stars of movies to fall in love with one another.

Some said he shouldn't save Detroit. But President Obama made the tough and right call to save more than a million American jobs in an important, iconic industry.

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

Alice: I don’t love you anymore. Goodbye. Dan: Since when? Alice: Now. Just now.

The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.