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.

Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.

Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

if you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.