Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]

She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?