I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal.

A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all.

You can forgive yourself a great deal.