Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

Success is a great healer.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

the only revenge worth having is success.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

If all shy, soulful young women who dreamed of becoming writers for a living actually could do that, imagine the library we would have.

Think big from the beginning.

Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.

What they ask you for is actions, proofs, works, and all you can produce are transformed tears.

You are afraid of me, because I talk like a sphinx.

It is difficult to fly without wings.

Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.

That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.

Shoes are the finishing touch on any outfit and it is important to complete a look with the perfect pair!

Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.