You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

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.

If we say I love you, it may be received with doubt, for there are times when it is hard to believe. Say I hate you, and the one spoken to believes it instantly, once for all. ... Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

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.

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.

I work whenever I'm let.