You can never betray the people who are dead.

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

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.

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

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.

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.