Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as “cruelty.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.

I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.