The longer life goes on, the fewer those around you to challenge your account of things, to remind you that life is not as you tell it, but as you remember it.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

创作的行为是一种抵抗的行为。

我希望我能写得像猫一样神秘。

一个最重大的错误，是以动机而不是结果来判断政策的得失。

废物只是放错位置的原材料。