Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way.

Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul.

Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

Love is the miracle of divinity.

Nothing is so deceiving as knowledge.

This will be the fourth time I've seen this film. I'm very proud of it and I think it's a great movie for women of any age. And almost every single man I've talked to has admitted to crying.

Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

The uneasy ghost of Marx must suffer the torments of the damned at the truth glaring from the pages of history that one does not abolish property by transferring it to the state.

There is no beauty without order.

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.