I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.

I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up.

You can't call yourself a feminist if you don't believe in the right to abortion.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.

... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn't happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I am truly beside myself.

There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much time at the bottom of the ocean and can't tell which way is up. When he surfaces, he's liable to have a condition called the bends, where the body can't adapt to the oxygen levels in the atmosphere. All of this happens to me when I surface from a great book.