A man's world is different from a woman's world and a man's emotions are different from a woman's emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.

Every day one has to earn the name of 'writer' over again, with much wrestling.

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.

I am too pure for you or anyone.

What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.

I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to the shock room, to comfort me with an assurance that no psychiatrist can quite manage to convey.

Intoxicated with madness, I'm in love with my sadness