“When a man takes up arms, he does so for many reasons. Sometimes to punish, sometimes to intimidate or frighten. But when a woman picks up a weapon, she means to kill.”

“A good idea catches on, snowballing as it picks up adherents. Sometimes a bad idea does the same.”

“Sometimes Margaret tells herself that there's a moral difference between killing kittens for no reason and what she does.”

“If every man lays down his arms and refuses to pick them up, the first man to pick up can do whatever he wants.”

“Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.”

“Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality”

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”

“A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.”

“Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.”

“My mother and I have this really strangely close relationship. No other relationship can come close to it. It's frightening. Even when I'm in a relationship with a man, I compare it to my relationship with my mother. She is a friend, but she is still a mother, and everything a mother needs to be, she is. She is really observing and caring and doesn't want anything but giving because it's her joy. Even when I can't bear anybody, not even myself, she 's like the sun coming up to me. She dedicated all her life to me. Sometimes I feel that she gave her life to me and now it's my job to maybe take her somewhere. But what is it she doesn't know? She knows things I couldn't begin to know. Yet she is so fresh with ideas which I already take for granted. She sometimes wakes me up and says, 'Don't you see?”