But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.

The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all the consequences of this situation which the one has offered and the other accepted.

To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.

I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.

I don't want to be just another blade of grass.

I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.

In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and so on. It's a little boring to make up stories. So many people think that it's better to be very close to reality and to recount one's life as it is rather than to fictionalize, as they say, that is to transpose, and therefore to cheat.