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.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.