A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

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.

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

I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.

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

I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.