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.

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

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.

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

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.

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