Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?

I tell, therefore you are.

It's in Macbeth: "The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon." I seldom have occasion to pull it out, but it's ready and waiting!

The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.