Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

The evening passes somehow; I watch television with Nancy, or I write. It is difficult, not having a family, and it is difficult to explain. I always go to bed early. And I am always ready for Monday morning, that time that other people dread.

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.