No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.

I recognize limitations in the sense that I've read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Shakespeare . . . Aside from that I don't think of limiting myself.

My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

I don't think there's any intrinsic difference between a lover and a husband. ... If I were cynical, I would say that a woman should have both a good husband and a lover. But I'm not cynical so I'll just say that a woman should have a lover who's a good husband and a husband who's a good lover, perhaps both.

I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.

curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.