When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

I know all one can know when one knows nothing.

Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.

A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart.

Some people are like that - closed - they can't learn from anyone. Us, for example, we can't learn anything, neither I from you nor you from me, nor from anyone, nor from anything, nor from what happens.