This is how women are trained to stay indoors, she thought, the idea echoing in her mind like a gravesong. This is how women are trained not to act.

I am Death. I come quickly, I come slowly, but I am not cheated.

Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.

Carlin often said that history was everything, for it was in man’s nature to make the same mistakes over and over.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

Money is the mother's milk of everything, and it certainly is the mother's milk of politics.

Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.

At the end, killing is killing. Massacring is massacring.

I do not understand how you humans can walk in shoes that are that tall.” “Its my motto,” said Isabelle, with a sultry smile. “Nothing less than seven inches.

The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.

There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.

If you don't believe in yourself...nobo dy else will.

I think that for me personally, a lot of my choices have been to do with my own issues of not feeling safe as a child and feeling a sense of stability.

I know what I can do, so I never doubt myself.