Facts must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity.

There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life