To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort

There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me.

Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. ... Is this true?

Food is my drug of choice.

Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.