Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.

She didn't care about anything, or maybe she cared too much.

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

You do so much for me, my friend. I am truly blessed to have the friendship of someone as amazing as you. You are part of my life.

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.

Tidy fees are the most effective remedy, both for the doctor and the patient.

I'm not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I'm not going to back down.

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

Let us not settle for what is simply 'OK' when we have full information on what can create lasting change.

It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.