Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.