A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.

We are all worthy of one another.

I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.

In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.

Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me.

Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease.

(Her husband's departure ...) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.From "Butterfly on F street

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

When the way is not clear, there is absolutely no way. "Wrong choices" are unarguably "no choices".

Always ask yourself the question "Is this going to help get me to my goal or not?

Do not surrender to the one that rules this world, you have the greater One in you

Believe what you want But don't dumb down what Jesus said.

I've never lost a duel to the death. Not one.

We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.

The US has been the leading terrorist state in the world for many years.

You know, I can get kind of spunky or I can get tough, you know, that kind of tough, sexy look. But sexy? No, I don't think so.

I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc.

We need to increase the capacity; we need to improve performance so that we are more effective at lending that kind of support.