“Layer by layer art strips life bare.”

“So if it seems that some of what I’ll have to say in the pages to come doesn’t reflect the mellowing of age, that’s only because I’ve never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.”

“I happen to feel that the degree of a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.”

“Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts.”

“The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.”