“Any similarity between existing people and certain characters in this book is due solely to insight into human nature.”

“It was truer to my father to let the songs he'd sung die with him, little by little, averse at a time. How could these art-mongers constantly ignore the mortality of beauty, a pleonasm if ever I'd ...”

“I've often observed that women can be the weakest link in women's rights.”

“I can hear the roar of women's silence”

“People have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gamboling, thieving and robing are covered over folks will tolerate it longer than out right violence, even when the violence ...”