It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door.

Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.

How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?

Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.