Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing.

You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.

People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.

Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.

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

Why do men feel threatened by women?

To want is to have a weakness.