“A dutiful wife enables a good man to add her hands to his own for self-applause.”

“There is no point in poverty if it does not make a rich man, observing it, feel better.”

“Marriage is the legal method devised to end love without pain.”

“It takes a lot of wind to sail a leaky boat.”

“The past is an educational toy for the present. It should be discarded the moment its usefulness is outgrown.”

“Hell is only the Cringe Eternal and the Place of our Self's Undoing. When Nietzsche proclaimed "God is Dead!" he forgot to add that Satan is also dead and we are free from all that antique tat.”

“She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and could never be - for a woman. And that no one would ever be that version of herself which she sought to reach out to and touch with an ungloved hand. There was only her own mood and whim, and if that was all there was, she decided to turn the naked hand toward it, discover it and let others become as intimate with their own selves as she was.”