My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.

Everybody should customize their names.

The worst mistakes I've made have been the ones directed by sweet-natured hopefulness.

There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to her.

As my mother once said to me, ‘They’re quite crazy, dear – men are. What you look for is one of them whose insanity is large enough, and calm and generous enough, to include you.

Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.

I don't think that most women have to prove that they're real women. You live long enough, you graduate to being real.