She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls.

I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.

The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient, since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here.

And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.