I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.

Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.

Most things good for writing are bad for life.

It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library.

No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force and presence, startles you, takes you by surprise, as would a ghost suddenly appearing in the room wearing familiar perfume and boots.

If I retain any freshness of approach, it's by going slowly having long intervals between finished projects.

I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how.