I do believe in reincarnation, but I do not believe there is life before noon.

I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.

Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap.

Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?

It takes only one child to raze a village.

Kings and queens might do wicked things, but they don't nag. One thing I like about Bloody Mary: she never said a word about lung cancer.

Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my own contempt.