If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.

My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people from the beatnik generation. They weren't married, and I thought that was normal. We called them by their first names.

Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of them.

My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.