A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.