Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.

Given masculine norms, it is clear that women are more likely to be considered crazy - I'm not saying to be crazy.

I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.

All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.

Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.

To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.

When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.