To be a complete victim may be another source of power.

Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing.

Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.