I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self the more you do.

Young girls are sad. They like to be; it makes them feel strong.

What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.

Novels arise out of the shortcomings of History.

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other than utter failure.