Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.

Every time you open your wardrobe, you look at your clothes and you wonder what you are going to wear. What you are really saying is 'Who am I going to be today?

Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.

Because clearly the most amazing thing had happened: by some chance - no, the lover does not believe in chance, but destiny - destiny had arranged it so that the man and woman who had made the original whole, then somehow divided and separated by an angry God, had met up again, and now must reform the rightful, righteous whole. At once!

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.