How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived.

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.

There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.