A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy

This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.

When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language

…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a valuable service to the rhino and the rhino hardly notices the birds.

I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.

A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy