I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.

Habit has a kind of poetry.

We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.

I admire Freud a great deal as a person and thinker. Despite everything, I find his work very, very rich, but I think that for women he has been absolutely disastrous. And even more so, everyone who came after him.

The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

The Sahara was a spectacle as alive as the sea. The tints of the dunes changed according to the time of day and the angle of the light: golden as apricots from far off, when we drove close to them they turned to freshly made butter; behind us they grew pink; from sand to rock, the materials of which the desert was made varied as much as its tints.