We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

We women adore failures. They lean on us.