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 bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

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

Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.

being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does.

Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.