I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

The heart of Jesus glowed, because it was holy. Holy things glowed in general.

The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim we're living in a post-feminist era are either sadly mistaken or tired of thinking about the whole subject.

Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They're a group phenomenon, they're not very fast, they're quite sickly. So what's the pleasure of being one?