A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.

The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.

I think philosophy is extremely good training for anyone who wants to do anything. Although that is an idea which people may speak scornfully of now, I think it does teach one to

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

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.

I am not famous for anything in particular. I am just famous.