“Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.”
“Nothing has really happened unless it's been described [in words].”
“I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.”
“Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”
“Almost everything that I've ever worried about has never happened ..”
“Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.”