The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.

It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.

There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.

My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.

Begging your pardon, sir....One population can't make peace with another by force.

She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.

It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?