“Friendship is ageless. It is the spirit we should like and care for, not the shell that encases it.”

“Learning to be a lady / is like learning / to live within a shell, / to be a crustacean encased / in a small white / uncomfortable world.”

“We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those leaden walls that encase the human spirit, that define it and guard it and hold it forever inaccessible.”

“We discover that all human beings are just like us, so we are able to relate to them more easily. That generates a spirit of friendship in which there is less need to hide what we feel or what we are doing.”

“Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.”

“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. ”