I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.

I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.