The great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.
Self-preservation is the first responsibility.
My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.
My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.
Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too.
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
In real love you want the other person's good.
I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country.
I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.
