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

Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.

If you talked or laughed in church, told lies, had impure thoughts or conversations, you were bad; if you obeyed your parents or guardians, went to confession and communion regularly, said prayers for the dead, you were good.

I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.

Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting.

Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process