“Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist.”

“She considered [her] life, which had not been a life but only a sort of greeting, a Hello There.”

“You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.”

“Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’."(on Lillian Hellman)”

“I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.”

“What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?”

“There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.”