A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

With solitude, however, fervently it is desired and embraced, comes loneliness. T. H White, the author, offered advice to those in sadness -- learn something new.

Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women...

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.