"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

"I have an immense desire to be alone; and yet I am afraid of solitude."

"The truth is, I often like women. I like their minds, their bodies, their conversation, their wit, their beauty, their ideas, their clothes, their courage, their independence, their gaiety, their seri…"

"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners."