My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.

It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

I'm happier writing about doctors than I would have been being one.

There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.

What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder But it has no soul.

I said: I must remember this, being small.

I am afraid of getting older … I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free…. I want, I want to think, to be omniscient…. I think I would like to call myself ‘The girl who wanted to be God.