Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

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

Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom.

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

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

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.