As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.

There is a school of thought that believes that sleep is for the night. You appear to be out to disprove them.

A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar?

There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.

If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you.

Salad, I can't bear salad. It grows while you're eating it, you know.

He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.

Words save our lives, sometimes.

One of the biggest lessons people on Earth have is the false belief that looks, money and power are requirements for love, when it’s the opposite.

When life's adversities overwhelm you, look beyond your circumstances with an absolute trust that God is in control.

But trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.

Nobody Black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines

I think women are scared of feeling powerful and strong and brave sometimes.

I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.

A man agrees with god as a raindrop agrees with the storm

A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change.