I am not kind, I cut people off as with shears and I drop them like nettles.

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant.

Cities, in many ways, are the best repositories for a love affair. You are in a forest or a cornfield, you are walking by the seashore, footprint after footprint of trodden sand, and somehow the kiss or the spoken covenant gets lost in the vastness and indifference of nature. In a city there are places to remind us of what has been.

I know the mistake I am making. I see the exits in life.

I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.

It's not the vote women need, we should be armed.