Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.

When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men...

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.

A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.