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.

happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.

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.

What you call types of mind are only mental ages.

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.

If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.

Art must take reality by surprise. It takes those moments which are for us merely a moment, plus a moment, plus another moment, and arbitrarily transforms them into a special series of moments held together by a major emotion.