I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

It is terribly hard to be married, harder than anything. I think one has to be an angel.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.