You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.

No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.

Cooking is revolution and creation.

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.

Old age is life's parody.

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.

If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all.