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?
Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
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.
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.