The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.

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

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

It isn't necessarily the great and famous beauty spots we fall in love with. As with people, so with places. Love is unforeseen, and we can all find ourselves affectionately attached to the minor and the less obvious.

One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.

[My novel] took up the sweetest part of my mind and the rarest part of my imagination; it was like being in love and better. All day long when I was busy [...], I had my unfinished novel personified almost as a secret companion and accomplice following me like a shadow wherever I went, whatever I did.