She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.

I am not kind, I cut people off as with shears and I drop them like nettles.

I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.

Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.

it is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night.

For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert.

literature is the last banquet between minds.