Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.

I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.

What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?

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

She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.

from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within itself; that is why Americans like speed, alcohol, thriller films and any sensational news: the demand for new things, and ever newer things, is feverish since nowhere will they rest.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.