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.

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

Truthfully speaking, women are dangerous, even those who aren't feminists, because there has always been a women's revolt. Only it has usually translated itself into solitary, individualist, disagreeable manifestations - the whole history of the taming of the shrew, the woman-shrew. They weren't shrews without cause.

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

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

Live with no time-out.

Anais Nin shows an occasional grace in writing, but her work is quite foreign to me, precisely because she wants so much to be feminine and not feminist. And then she is so gaga before so many men. She talks about men I know in France, men who were less than nothing, and she considers them kings, extraordinary people.