The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.

The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for granted, as if man was intended to live on terms of friendly intercourse with the rest of creation instead of huddling in isolation on the fourteenth floor of an apartment house in a city where animals occurred behind bars in the zoo.

If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there.

it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.

Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.

Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.

Can one consider controversy without falling into it?