It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

I prefer men to cauliflowers

At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial-and any question about sex is that-one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.

Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.

The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.