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

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

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

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.

That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.

When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.

Great writers are the saints for the godless.