There is balance in life, but not fairness.

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

In England, life is a long process of composing oneself.

At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing.

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

In thoughts one keeps a reserve of hope, in spite of everything. You cannot say good-bye in imagination. That is something you can only do in actuality.

I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal.