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.

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.

I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

They say you cannot make a noise to annoy yourself.

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.