"Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."

"I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time."

"Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck."

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."

"One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats."

"Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is."

"We can only learn to love by loving."

"Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins."

"Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea."