Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.

To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our hate and envy, unrecognized by us, which keeps us miserable. Yet these things are in our heads, not out of our hands; we own them. We can throw them out if we choose.

One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.

My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they are behind a wheel that they most fear the control of women and children.

Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.

Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine