It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.

Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.

When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At least I do.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would have shocked me, but I knew that in his case they did not exclude tenderness and devotion - feelings which came all the more easily to him since he was determined that they should be transient.