if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.

You cannot divide minds into sexes. Each human being presents an individual problem.

There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a writer. To be a writer always seemed something so far removed from my talents and abilities and imaginings that it didn't afflict me at all as a notion when I was young. But I was always conscious that I wanted to write.

Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones.

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.