Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

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.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.

Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

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