When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.
The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.
Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends. Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations.
The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.