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.

With the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I embraced him around the neck, and we touched.

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too.

The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.

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

Death is loneliness in its purest form.