Be respectful of words. They mean something.

One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to some of them to be able to ascribe incurable defects, such as belonging to a certain sex; or base motives, or lack of understanding, to anyone whose views they disagree with.

We are born knowing death.

we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.

Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.

Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away.

We have this mistaken notion that everybody in the world has to go to college. The colleges are already crowded with people who never in this world will absorb more than a rudimentary education, and we dilute everything to meet this low standard.