Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.