Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.

Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.