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.

All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that.

Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away.

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

Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are and where you are and what you are doing.... And never take advice, including this.

We are born knowing death.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.