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

You should think about nobody and go your own way, not on a course marked out for you by people holding mugs of water and bottles of iodine in case you fall and cut yourself so that they can pick you up - even if you want to stay where you are - and get you moving again.

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

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

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.

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

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