Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.
All good fortune is a gift of the gods and ... you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good but by being bold.
Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Not everyone is born to fulfill an heroic role. The only realistic ambition is to live in the present. And sometimes, quite often in fact, this is more than enough to keep one busy. Time, which was on...
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
No blame should attach to telling the truth.
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
Women share their sadness, thought Edith. Their joy they like to show off to one another. Victory, triumph over the odds, calls for an audience. And that air of bustle and exigence sometimes affected...
Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things t...
I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought I must do something, and I've always read a lot of fiction - you learn so much from ficti...