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.

If I were proud of anything in my life, it would be of our love. I feel we have to tell to each other as many things as we can, so we are not only lovers, but the closest of friends at the same time.

You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do or don't do.

I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.

To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not exist a mathematics which is only a women's mathematics, or a feminine science.

To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.

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