Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.

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

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

What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

until I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable.