And without understanding, could each properly love the other?

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

I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

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

I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.