The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost something precious, but have gained, immeasurably, by the passing of the old order.

Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.

It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.