Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

When a baby first looks at you...when it laughs that deep, unselfconscious gurgle; or when it cries and you pick it up and it clings sobbing to you...then you are-happy is not the precise word-filled.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

you can't equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn't fun, it doesn't give you a kick, it just allows you to survive.

It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.

She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim.

rain is one thing the British do better than anybody else.