Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

I think there is an enormous diference between speaking and writing. One rereads what one writes. But one might read it slowly or quickly. In other words, you do not know how long you will have to spend deliberating over a sentence. ... But if I listen to a tape recorder, the listening time is determined by the speed at which the tape turns and not by my own needs.

I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence.

To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head

When I can't see myself in the mirror, I can't even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I exist at all.