Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.

For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.

The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.

You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.

We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.

This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind.

My war brought me many things; let yours bring you as much. Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself. No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into, and remember Lady Macbeth, who had her mind in her hand. We can't all be as safe as that.