I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.

Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.

Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.