Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

I've always been keenly aware of the passing of time. I've always thought that I was old. Even when I was twelve, I thought it was awful to be thirty. I felt that something was lost. At the same time, I was aware of what I could gain, and certain periods of my life have taught me a great deal. But, in spite of everything, I've always been haunted by the passing of time and by the fact that death keeps closing in on us.

She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased them when you told them they looked like something, like something else.

Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.