In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I've no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I'm willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.

Mothers can forgive anything!

…often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.

... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been

Where the heart is the mind works best.

... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.

…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.