Unhappy! of course you'll be unhappy. Who the devil are you that you shouldn't be unhappy, like the mother that bore you?

I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.

This man's spiritual power has been precisely this, that he has distinguished between custom and creed. He has broken the conventions, but he has kept the commandments.

And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages? Might as well talk about prudent suicides.

That God should allow good people to be as bestially stupid as that--rose against me like a towering blasphemy.

I knew why earlier generations once believed that the sun circled the earth. Because, in our limited imaginations, that is how we lived our lives. -Mrs. Tuesday's Departure

This was going to be worse than the time I table danced in the diner in high school!

Games give you a chance to excel.

Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.

I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.

One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.

The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort.

Consider as sin any minute of life spent on something other than saving souls for eternity from this world doomed to destruction.

The worst thing a girl can do is trail after a boy when a love affair is dead.

'Bossy' is someone who bosses people around without reason.