Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is a primary fact of the inner life, the most difficult fact with which we must live.

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.

Dear girl! Life is addictive. Yet we must live.

I love insult, it's always honest.

Never be ashamed of your subject, and of your passion for your subject.

The mysteries of the female sex! We men can never hope to fathom your depths, but only try not to drown in them.

When a marriage ends, who is left to understand it?