We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.

People who are genuinely involved in life, not just living a routine they've contrived to protect them from disaster, always seem to have more demanded of them than they can easily take on.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.

One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

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.