While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Nobody really lives in the present.

I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.

We don't say a man's ill if he's crazy about sex, if he can't get enough sex. Why should a woman be different?

I can't exist without books.