Death is loneliness in its purest form.

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

I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.

I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.

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.

Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto a treadmill and never got off.

Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.