Cooking is revolution and creation.

If the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with what you have to say.

The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.

What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within the norms of the dominant class.

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.