What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too.

I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.

… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.

Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.

The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.

Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!