There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.

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

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

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.

One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.

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

You can never betray the people who are dead.