I'm tired and it's taking an increasing amount out of me, more than I have to give physically. And that's why I want to move to Sicily and buy that little farm and raise a flock of goats and geese. I find it peaceful ... and it would be a nice way to end life.

I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.

Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart

Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.