I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water..

[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature..

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsib….

There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing of the seasons. But huma….

There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as they had lived, with style and….

What we need is endless courage..

I was always restless, always a roving spirit. When I was a little child I was always running away. I never got very far, but they were always having….

Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto a treadmill a….

We have this mistaken notion that everybody in the world has to go to college. The colleges are already crowded with people who never in this world w….

I can pray better when I'm comfortable..

There have been many times when I have been so entirely sickened of life it was very hard to work to keep on, a half dozen times I have been tempted ….

In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and expect society to feed….

I always write a story in one sitting..

I work whenever I'm let..

Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined..

The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the very roots of its belief in justic….

I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint..

I have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also I have a religious training. And I sup….

I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand..

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem ….

Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and the dying, and those who are doing the talki….