Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.

Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.

A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.

Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another ... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing?

doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.

One is not oneself every day-fortunately.

Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.