I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.

If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.

Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.