Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

A baby's mother also needs a mother.

What makes a Man love Death, Fanny? Is it because he hopes to avert his own by watchin' the Deaths of others? Doth he hope to devour Death by devourin' Executions with his Eyes? I'll ne'er understand it, if I live to be eight hundred Years. The Human Beast is more Beast than Human, 'tis true.

A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

Solitude is considered un-American.