Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.

all success cloaks a surrender

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

There was a time, in the nineteenth century, for example, when women spoke mostly about the house, children, birth, and so forth, because it was their domain. That's changing a little, now.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

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

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.