We don't say a man's ill if he's crazy about sex, if he can't get enough sex. Why should a woman be different?

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.

Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.

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

It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.

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.

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