until it had been clearly explained that men were always and always partly wrong in all their ideas, life would be full of poison and secret bitterness. Men fight about their philosophies and religions, there is no certainty in them; but their contempt for women is flawless and unanimous.

The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.

Clear thought makes clear speech.

Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.

If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

The joy of a party is the newness of people to each other, renewed strikingness of humanity. They love each other, to distraction. Really to distraction. Before they fall into conversation and separate. ... The strangeness, and the hopes aroused by strangeness, are illusions. Mirages arising wherever people gather expectantly together.

Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material.