Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.

I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.