As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

Miracles happen when dreamers take action.

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

The perjurer's mother told white lies.

Every member must work or quit. No honorary members.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.

It is not love, but lack of love which is blind.

I discovered that in life, one has got to serve to be observed, if one serve not, one will probably be reserved. Don't wisdom teach this?

We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues.