Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.
Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.
Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.
Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
He who flies can also return; but it is not so with him who dies.
When a storm blows, you must stand firm. For it is not trying to knock you down, it is really trying to teach you to be strong.
[Sandra Day O'Connor] is a justice whose graciousness and sense of duty fuels her continued service, even agreeing to serve more than six months after her retirement date.