The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

For there is never any way to go but in.

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

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

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible.

The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. They sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. It is not good for the little books. And really valuable books have been allowed to go out of print. In the old days, the publishers knew that these difficult books, the books that appeal only to a minority, were very productive in the long run. Because they're probably the books that will be read in the next generation.