I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.

'I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house' she said.

We possess nothing certainly except the past

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

To understand all is to forgive all.