Chic is a convent for unloved women.

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs.

There are few things more subtly distressing than an inappropriate gift from someone close to you.

The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

Strange how potent cheap music is.

I suggest to wash tongues and heads with soap for some people. But I'm not sure that it would help

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Science has but one fashion-to lose nothing once gained.

What we seek to do in Tantric Buddhism is to liquefy ourselves. Life will automatically bring us to the next stage. You don't really have to know where you're going - It's like breathing.

In Lake Wobegon, we don't forget mistakes.

Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.

Massie's frindship is something that has to be earned. Not because she's beautiful or popular but because she's loyal.

I was just a mini-star when we did 'Gone With the Wind.'

Everyone has obstacles, and you're not going to have the right answer or do the right thing every single time.