“There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate.”

“It doesn't seem to matter what we think...The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's nothing I can do.”

“Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.”

“I'm not bossy - I just happen to be more capable than most everyone else.”

“Why was the judgment of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?”

“Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?”

“You've been quiet lately...but it's not so much the quiet as something inside the quiet.”