From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
Stardom can be a gilded slavery.
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
If you rest, you rust.
Marriage is like a war. There are moments of chivalry and gallantry that attend the victorious advances and strategic retreats, the birth or death of children, the momentary conquest of loneliness, the sacrifice that ennobles him who makes it. But mostly there are the long dull sieges, the waiting, the terror and boredom. Women understand this better than men; they are better able to survive attrition.
Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
