The very madness of the scheme protects it.

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

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.

Nothing is more maddening than being questioned by the object of one's interest about the object of hers, should that object not be you.

Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.