On or about December 1910, human character changed.

The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.

Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind.