“I do not like to write - I like to have written.” 

“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.” 

“You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it.” 

“Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.” 

“Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.” 

Great loves too must be endured. 

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them

You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”

“The best things in life are free. The second-best are very expensive.”

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

"If you’re sad, add more lipstick and attack."

“I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.”

“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”

“In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.”

“A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.”

“All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.”

“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”