Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

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.

Live what you love.

Nothing happened. Nothing continued to happen. More Nothing. The Return of Nothing. Son of Nothing. Nothing Rides Again. Nothing and Abbot and Costello meet the Wolfman...

Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?

You can never know how your clock runs. But it does run - and always faster than you think.

To be honest, I don't listen to groups, really. Hardly ever. I know I'm in one, but I don't like them very much.

Is not a kiss the very autograph of love?

We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.

What's going on?" I sat down on the bed and finished the last of the scone. "Bad things," she said mischievously. "You'll approve.

I think identity issues have their place in the workplace, less so personal behaviors.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.