Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.

The rush of power to the head is not as becoming as a new hat

[On parents:] They're not gods to be pleased or devils to be exorcised. They're just there, and we can only hope they understand when we seem less than perfect. And try to understand, ourselves, when they're not all we'd like them to be.

It's especially fitting that they call a cruise ship 'she,' for she is pregnant with a thousand adult embryos who long to stay forever warm and sheltered in this great white womb.

People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God.

Never doubt love ... Never question it when it comes onstage, but be happy for its entrance. And do not weep when it makes its exit, for it leaves behind it the sweet aroma of caring, a fragrance to linger the rest of your life.

Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.