Believing in gods always causes confusion.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.

Yet there were times when he did love her with all the kindness she demanded, and how was she to know what were those times? Alone she raged against his cheerfulness and put herself at the mercy of her own love and longed to be free of it because it made her less than he and dependent on him. But how could she be free of chains she had put upon herself? Her soul was all tempest. The dreams she had once had of her life were dead. She was in prison in the house. And yet who was her jailer except herself?

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.