And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did?

It's funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl's clothes cost more than the girl inside them?

Sometimes the Earth trembles; sometimes you can feel it breathe.

I took the red dress down and put it against myself. 'Does it make me look intemperate and unchaste?' I said.

I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some.

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.

Life if curious when reduced to its essentials