One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.
I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.
I write every day. Writing is a necessity - like eating.
When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.
I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.
When a man and a woman love one another that is enough. That is marriage. A religious rite is superfluous. And if the man and woman live together without the love, no ceremony in the world can make it a marriage.