A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.