Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half was alchemized into gold when the austere bluestocking became the fallen woman.

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

maturity ... is letting things happen.

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

Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.

Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.

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.