Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.

Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.

His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: "I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad."

The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.