There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal.

I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.

All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. Old age is similarly a waiting room, where you go after life's over and wait for cancer or a stroke. The years before and after the menstrual years are vestigial: the only meaningful condition left to women is that of fruitfulness.

At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.

Paradise is for those who make paradise.