You can't recover from what you do not understand.

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

Callous greed grows pious very fast.

No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented', changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.