In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

Death is only a small interruption.

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.