Colette

"The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen."

"A door slamming makes one jump, but it doesn't make one afraid. What one fears is the serpent that crawls underneath it." - Cheri

"There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall." - Earthly Paradise

"No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object." - Earthly Paradise

"By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet." - Mes Apprentissages

". . . that provisional tomb where the living exile sighs, weeps, fights and succumbs, and is born again, remembering nothing, with the day." - The Cat