The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.

But I must admit I didn´t like that idea; do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat - that had been the nightmare of my adolescence. If it meant going back to that, if would be just as well to turn on the gas at once. But I suppose everyone thinks of things like that: let´s turn on the gas at once. And you don´t turn it on.

immortality is a terrible curse.

It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.