It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband.

"What do women want?" "They eat green salad and drink human blood."

I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence.

I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses.

Well, everybody has a history.

It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent.

A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.