I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.

... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.

Frenchwomen just never look ungroomed, do they?

I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people’s. (Are we all under this illusion?)

Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.

I think best with a pencil in my hand.

What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is going to do next to be drenched in sleep or in the sea. Pencils and pads and curling blue sheets alive with letters heap up on the desk.