Art, it seems to me, should simplify.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

If one is talking about a vile thing it is better to talk of it in coarse language

There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment - you can truly be yourself.

[David Boreanaz]'s got a very, very cute little giggle.

In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.

You don't hit anything on the backswing, so why rush it?

I like to look at the interface between words and pictures and wonder about which comes first, a sort of chicken-or-egg type of question.

I love kids and children, and I love being a mom.

Big-endians and small-endians.

I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness.