“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”

“I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”

“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.”

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

“I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They didn’t bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn’t argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn’t.”