To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.

I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women.

The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are you reading?

Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.

pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.

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.