Funny way to spend your life, though, studying another chap's versifying.

You are safe with me." "I am not at all safe, with you. But I have no desire to be elsewhere.

One does not remember the winners. One remains haunted by the losers.

I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.

Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other than utter failure.

In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.