The needs of a society determine its ethics.

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy: it's serious business.

They who have health have hope; and they who have hope, have everything.

The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?

A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.

When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'