Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write, you must. And if you can't face that, better not write.

The very thing about people that makes the human race interesting is also the thing that makes it so hard to get anything done without the most horrible confusions: no two people think exactly the same way about anything.

I think joy is just as instructive as pain, and I like it better. I never meant to suffer any more than I could help; my nature was meant for happiness, a daylight art and living.

Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.

Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand.