For it is a curious fact that though human beings have such imperfect means of communication, that they can only say 'good to eat' when they mean 'beautiful' and the other way about, they will yet endure ridicule and misunderstanding rather than keep any experience to themselves.

Still, life had a way of adding day to day

Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.

[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.

I have had my vision.

As a woman, I have no country

At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever