Family. A snug kind of word.

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands.

Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.

I would rather regret what I have done than what I have not.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're a harassed tribe, we writers.

Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

There are no intermediaries when it comes to matters of change. Anyone who is not for change is against it. Anyone who is against change is an enemy of nature!

You were the only one who looked at me and didn't see her

My color is my joy and not my burden.

If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.

If you are lucky and reverent, and hush for a moment the doubts in your head, sometimes God will whisper in your ear.

Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.

Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.

It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks about what's "too much" what's "enough" or if you're telling the "right" stories, just do good work.

... the atlas is a manifold. This is a typical mathematician's use of the word "is", and should not be confused with the normal use.

I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.