It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.
Nothing feels worse than other people's good times.
I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.
The great thing about the dead, they make space.
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more.