Things can never be as they were. It's astonishing how we comment on change, as if change is something remarkable. On the contrary, not to change is unnatural, against nature.

I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism.

. . . a friend . . . showed me the kitchen in her new home with the words, "This is my office." I knew what she meant. This is where I do the work I want to, the work I like and enjoy.

It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty

La libertad nos mantiene volando alto, pero la contienda destruye nuestra habilidad de volar.

The quality of your decisions can only be improved if you improve all these factors.

I may have power but I do not have strength.

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

I had two speeds, which often varied with my blood alcohol level: fine with whatever, and never, ever satisfied. Where was the balance between these two?

Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.

Only those who have earned leisure know how to use it profitably.

I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin.

When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.