Dialogue's a method of revelation, of course. A few words of dialogue can reveal worlds about a character.

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

Love must wait; it must break one’s bones.

Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave

Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.

I'm a frotteur, someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible.

I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.

Dresscodes are for styleless people.

Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.

What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

He was the perfect soldier: he went where you sent him, and stayed where you put him, and had no idea of his own to keep him from doing exactly what you told him.

I was born to be a remarkable woman it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.

Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

I think a lot of people misinterpret what I'm doing because they think of it as just a joke or they think of it as disposable.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared

It is my greatest wish that the Children’s Fund should continue to be a beacon of hope and light.

It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain.

On the theoretical side, I was concerned with stochastic resonance.