The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?

Home is where your books are.

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.

I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.