There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

For there is never any way to go but in.

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an engineering problem.