Henry Adams

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.