You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.

Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.