Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.

From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.

Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer.

Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great

I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.

Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.