There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.

I can't exist without books.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

we dislike those we've injured.