When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.

There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors

People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.

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?