You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself.

We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.

... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.

Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

When there is no hope, one must invent hope.