“At first he thought she was an ordinary woman. Well, an ordinary dead woman anyways.”

“The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.”

“Not that she's a political animal, she's just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she's of the view that you don't bring children into the world to have them shot.”

“When a man says to a woman, "You are my anima," she should quickly scream and run out of the room. The word anima has neither the greatness of the Woman with Golden Hair nor the greatness of an ordinary woman, who wants to be loved as a woman.”

“. . . she gave him one of those broad smiles she reserved for strangers, as if she were aware of being able to pass, in their eyes, for an ordinary woman.”

“I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.”