we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.

Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto a treadmill and never got off.

Perhaps the habit which distinguishes civilized people from others is that of discussion, exchange of opinion and ideas, the ability to differ without quarrelling, to say what you have to say civilly and then to listen civilly to another speaker.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are and where you are and what you are doing.... And never take advice, including this.

. . . all that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.