Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backwards in time and exist in two places at once.

Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.

All fat women look the same; they all look 42.

Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.

Potential has a shelf life.

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

I was unfair to him, of course, but where would I have been without unfairness? In thrall, in harness. Young women need unfairness, it's one of their few defenses. They need their callousness, they need their ignorance. They walk in the dark, along the edges of high cliffs, humming to themselves, thinking themselves invulnerable.