Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.

Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

Youth is always an enemy to the old.

The suitable is the last thing we ever want.

No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.