“If... if I didn't try to get my life moving on my own account, I should think it just absurd to go on living.'A look of smiling obstinacy had come into Marcelle's face.'Yes, yes - it's your vice.''It's not a vice. It's how I'm made.''Why aren't other people made like that, if it isn't a vice?''They are, only they don't know it.”
“If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.”
“Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa. ”
“Vice is its own reward.”
“Vice pays for its own freedom.”
“Look ... first and foremost, I'm a scientist. That means it's my responsibility to make observations and gather evidence before forming a hypothesis, not vice versa.”