I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen.

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.

The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

In moments of despair, we look on ourselves lead-enly as objects; we see ourselves, our lives, as someone else might see them and may even be driven to kill ourselves if the separation, the "knowledge," seems sufficiently final.