“Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing.”
“All over America, people are making kamikaze choices about what to wear. They are misrepresenting the goods. They are letting their clothes write checks that their personalities cannot cash.”
“I wasn't just the madwoman in the attic--I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me.”
“(A) trip to the attic is an excursion into history, and...all over the world the present unravels beneath the stored detritus of the past; that's what attics are for.”
“Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.”
“It was apparent...that, all over America, thousands of people threw down a book or got up from a television show and said, 'I can write better than that!' It was amazing how many of them were wrong.”