If I tell a hotel I'm a travel writer, I can't get out of there without spending a few hours looking at every single room!
An excuse is a lie guarded.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
I think all my work's been about how do women get back into our bodies; how do men get back. We're all disassociated.
In the morning fix thy good purpose; and at night examine thyself what thou hast done, how thou hast behaved thyself in word, deed, and thought.
What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen.
Call me paranoid. I´m frequently right.