Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.

The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.

I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.

Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting.

For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process