The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

I was numb, but it was from not knowing just what this new life would hold for me.

What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.

The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now just normal. That is one of the things that will happen to all distortions: They become normal and turn into something else.

I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.