The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.

Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the language she speaks if not with the men who invented it, because that language has no feminine form for the words upright and pious.

Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.

If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.

A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.