Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.

I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.

What you call types of mind are only mental ages.

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

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

He lifted me up and held me close against him, my head on his shoulder. At that moment I loved him. In the morning light he was as golden, as soft, as gentle as myself, and he would protect me.

People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.