To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They&#39;d rather take their clothes off.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

It was possible, she thought, that she had won the race to reach the end of civilization. There was no prize. Obviously.