I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or très fou. Or something.' Not at all.' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody does. I don't mind. It's useful.

I despise people who can't control themselves.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

There is really no practical help that one can offer: it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own conviction, or working with one's own work; your style is what seems natural to you. It is a long process of discovery, one that never ends. I am working at it, and will be as long as I live.

If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours.

When I make fried chicken I always serve masses and masses of fresh mangos. It's a great combination.

And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.