The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.
Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.
I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
Just because she's leaving, don't start believing, that your rock and roll days are gone.
You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.
She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.
It might not be perfect, but the fundamental stance I adopted with regard to my home was to accept it, problems and all, because it was something I myself had chosen. If it had problems, these were almost certainly problems that had originated within me.