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

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.

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

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

I am 46, and have been for some time past.

When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.

Writing has freed me from the despair of living.