“Attic tragedies of stateliest and most regal argument.”

“It is seasoned throughout with Attic salt.”

“That is why most great love stories are tragedies.”

“I wasn't just the madwoman in the attic--I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me.”

“Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.”

“Every artist has a Dorian Gray slaving away in the attic.”

“Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.”

“Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing.”

“What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice,
Of Attic taste?”

“This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.”