To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.

Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.

I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.