I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.

All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of brave living, and it never comes in the form we expect, or at the season we hoped for, or as the result of our planning for it.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

. . . all that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses.

I will never again attempt to tell any young person what to do - the really gifted don't need advice and the others can't take it.

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.

we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.