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

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

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

“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?”