Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become.

I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.

No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.

the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.