Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

Besides, when you say you're a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it's kind of irresistible.

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.

They can send death at once, but life is slower.