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

Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

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.

Death is only a small interruption.

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

Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.