In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do or don't do.

I have never read a really good novel written by a man where women are portrayed as they truly are. They can be portrayed externally very well - Stendhal's Madame de Renal, for example - but only as seen from the outside.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

A man of the right doesn't write in the same way as a man of the left, you can see that right away, or a woman of the right or a woman of the left.