A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.

I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.

It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.

The cat jumps up on the bed and tries to get onto my head. It's his way of telling whether or not i'm dead. If i'm not, he wants to be scratched; if i am - he'll think of something