A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?

Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna--to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist.

The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this: they are always telling me what I should leave out in order to have success. But I know that nothing has more success in the end than an intelligent ferocity.

A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.

Behind the concept of woman's strangeness is the idea that a woman may do anything: she is below society, not bound by its law, unpredictable; an attribute given to every member of the league of the unfortunate.

About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity.