Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.