There is no fool like an educated fool.

If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.

There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.

I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not know that to be told I had transcended my gender would be considered a compliment. I didn't know — yet — that black was compulsory. All of that was in the future. When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.

The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst.

It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.

Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.