The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one's mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time.

I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.