sooner or later I do what I want to do.
Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.
How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century.
I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.
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.