...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.

None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.

I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.

We are all creatures of the stars.