For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests, let alone voting against the interests of people who need them, like people who are disenfranchised and people who are poor and so forth.

The joyous fulfillment of your sex : the sacred duties of beloved wife, and helpmeet, and mother. In opposition to the vulgar and mercantile hurly-burly of the great world, the idyllic pleasures of the domestic hearth-the which, I firmly believe, make of one small room an everywhere, indeed; and provide us with that small measure of bliss, which is, if we are greatly fortunate, and deserving, Our Lord's promise to us, of the Heaven to come.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out?

Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community.

One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.

The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.