The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.

Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.

On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as Keram said, in a self-satisfied way, they might kill me, but they would know that, if I was with him, there would be unpleasantness afterwards.

Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.