"I have always been interested in people. I have always been interested in human nature."

"I’ve always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties."

"One of the things I like about living in the country is that I can say anything I like and nobody hears me but the cows."

"I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find—at the age of fifty, say—that a whole new life has opened be…"

"No one human being knows the full truth about another human being."