My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they are behind a wheel that they most fear the control of women and children.

People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.

Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.

one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.

I was seduced by secrets, which are to true love as artificial sweetener is to sugar, calorie-free but in the long run carcinogenic, not the real thing, and only a peculiar aftertaste in the mouth to tell you so, to warn you.

Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.

What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop worrying.