"The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I'm the sort of person who will just look for the negative - Michael really can't understand it, but that's just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that's poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it's so liberating."

"I find divorces repulsive. I will never get divorced, never."

"I try and stay positive; being negative isn't good for my personality. I don't just bring myself down, I bring everyone around me down. It's like a dark cloud, 'Uh oh, here we go,' and have to snap out of it."

"I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty."

"Marriage is obsolete and a trap."

"Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way."

"Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often."

"After such mornings he returned to the show with relief. It eased him to push through the crowds of people. The noise, the rank stinks, the shouldering contact of human flesh soothed his jangled nerves."

"That was all he wanted for himself – to give to her. Biff's mouth hardened. He had done nothing wrong but in him he felt a strange guilt. Why? The dark guilt in all men, unreckoned and without a name."

"Us going to have a cup of coffee. Then maybe it all won't seem so bad."

"Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty."

"Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to."

"It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated."

"When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?"

"Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime."

"Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them."

"Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make."

"The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced."

"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil."

"No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art."

"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."

"Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."

"Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of."

"A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one."