To get the right answer, it helps to ask the right question.

The greatest mistake you can make is to fear making a mistake.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.

I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in.

Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes . . . .

America rules the world - by force.

Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.

Farewell, woman! I intend Henceforth every night to sit With my lewd, well-natured friend, Drinking to engender wit.

Don’t just be yourself. Be all of yourselves. Don’t just live. Be that other thing connected to death. Be life. Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.

If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no civil rights laws in the country.

She was gorgeous and fearless and I was in awe.

I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself.