“Mighty is geometry joined with art resistless.”

“Come, God -- Bromius, Bacchus, Dionysus -- burst into life, burstinto being, be a mighty bull,a hundred-headed snake,a fire-breathing lion. Burst into smiling life, oh Bacchus!”

“Try refusing the arrangement, or later petition for divorce -- the first is impossible while the second is like admitting you're a whore.”

“A woman like me! What am I like that's different from you or any man”

“No one who goes against her can win.”

“She came into the world fierce and stubborn and then she learned to hate.”

“We'll see how the sky catches fire. We'll see how she feeds the flames with her implacable hate.”