... You are ignorant of the duties you undertake in marrying...

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

She burned too bright for this world.

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!

He’s more myself than I am

He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.

He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.

...finally her hands, so light, holding his head still and catching all his thoughts and imprisoning them there, in the space that no longer existed between them.

I don't have to kill myself, living my life is just the same.

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

I'd like to be more of a bad influence than a role model. I'm getting lots of boys to wear eye-liner again which is good.

You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really can make a difference, nothing can quench the fire.

I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.

Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?

My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'

There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the "sacred" attitude and the acceptance of one's in most self.