Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.

Death is only a small interruption.

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.