Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!

If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal feminine," and if nevertheless we admit, provisionally, that women do exist, then we must face the question: what is a woman?

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

Buying is profound pleasure.