Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with.

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.

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.

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

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.

Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with.