Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.

as the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.

It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes.