Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge

For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.

You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.