A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

Parfois, écrire se rapproche de la chute libre : vos doigts s'agitent sur le clavier comme vos jambes dans le vide.

My discontent has accumulated over the past months, searching for a leak in the dam I’ve constructed to separate my true feelings from the situation closing in around me.

I forgive people but that doesn’t mean I accept their behavior or trust them. I forgive them for me, so I can let go and move on with my life.

True consistency that of the prudent and the wise is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.

In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!

Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.

In the stars is written the death of every man.

Night can't cloak your scarlet dream. Accept Desire's call.

Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.

Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.