They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh.

Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.

I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.

Truth is what most contradicts itself.