Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.

By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

Taking a leap of faith is better than taking a leap of doubt.

He's British, " she replied in a whisper. "He thinks he's perfect.

Undeniable obsession of words that quickens my spirit.

What's the feeling, nobody can hear you???What's the feeling you to scream and nobody hears?What's the feeling, to can't do anything?

The only really satisfactory confidante for your troubles is someone who enjoys them, and this inevitably cuts out anyone who actually loves you.

Endurance is the crowning quality.

In life, we choose whether or not we want to be a winner or a loser.

The infinity of this vacancy, the pervasive pain, the longing for some spirit, some lightness, some joy - that's all that is left.

The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.

Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.