To wear the arctic fox you have to kill it.
he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.
One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment.
[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.
We prove, we do not explain, our birth.
What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.