Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.

Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

I don't want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back, to withdraw, to keep the best in reserve, both overvalues the self, and undervalues what the self is.

The only sex education my mother ever gave me was the injunction: 'Never let a boy touch you down there.' I had no idea what she meant. She seemed to be referring to my knees.

A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?