The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.

One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.

One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.

My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to wait until my writings are obsolete. Then they may acquire timeliness.

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.