I seldom read on beaches or in gardens. You can't read by two lights at once, the light of day and the light of the book. You should read by electric light, the room in shadow, and only the page lit up.

That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.

Life is only lived full-time by women with children.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

Perhaps someone will have seen mine, the one I’m waiting for, just as I saw him, in a ditch when his hands were making their last appeal and his eyes no longer could see. Someone who will never know what that man was to me; someone whose name I’ll never know.

Very early in my life it was too late.

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.