Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

...the habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief.

Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to be balanced on it. If I can produce a great chair, even better. But above all I have to make sure that it has four stable feet.

Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.

The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the language she speaks if not with the men who invented it, because that language has no feminine form for the words upright and pious.

Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.