You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done.

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.

Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself.

Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.

If you are writing something in which you are really involved, you don't even need to think about it any longer. The situation itself demands your total commitment as an individual, just as in your political commitments.

Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the one who was dear to him.

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.