A publisher is somebody looking for someone who has something to say.

Yet she also longed for moments when she might be weak, when she need not prove anything to anyone.

Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze.

Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch.

I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.

The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.

I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.

A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

Much as I like getting awards in Oldenburg, Germany and Torino, it's nice to get one in America.

You can't make people listen to you. People only hear what they want to hear.

I've often admired the way many Catholics who have left the priesthood, for example, have nevertheless remained sincere Catholics. They voted with their feet.