Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.

I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.

Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.

Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

You're not too fat; you're just in the wrong country.

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.