Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.

Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?

But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.

Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven

Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.

A woman half dressed seemed to have some power, but a man was simply not as handsome as when he was naked, and not as secure as when he was clothed.

The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human beings could survive a life in hotels.