Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely.

The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful.

My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life.

... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.

The happy ending is our national belief.

If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.