“Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.”

“Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.”

“Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.”

“What does winter or autumn or spring or summer know of memory. They know nothing of memory. They know that seasons pass and return. They know that they are seasons. That they are time. And they know how to affirm themselves. And they know how to impose themselves. And they know how to maintain themselves, What does autumn know of summer. What sorrows do seasons have. None hate. None love. They just pass.”

“You know how writers are… they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.”

“Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold
A sheep-hook.”

“Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves.
But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.”

“People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.”

“Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen.”

“Empower the useless people who do not know how to empower themselves. That is the beginning of change and progress.”