I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice, a touch of the hand on the shoulder or the head. If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire.

I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.

And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

One gets started, and then, suddenly, one cannot remember what toothpaste they use . . . the moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.