It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.

the long-distance run of an early morning makes me think that every run like this is a life- a little life, I know- but a life as full of misery and happiness and things happening as you can ever get really around yourself

Everybody thinks theyll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you suddenly find out that you cant.

You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women.

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.

Whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I am not.