Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.