Friendship is a form of love. In fact, you don't know how it starts or why. It is subject to the caprices of time. It can grow or die without a reason. It can last a lifetime.

Above all else she mustn't think that using her body will help her attain her goal. Men use women who play seductively, and then they look down on them.

I dream of continuing to dream.

The waves have the habit of going forward and then flowing back.

The future is created through memory.

One writes what one lives, even if not in a literal way. Someone who has gone through an unhappy love tends to describe unhappy loves, even if they have nothing to do with their own.

A winter without snow seems depressing, lacking.

Falling in love with a story is like falling in love with a person. It tends to occupy your life, your thoughts. You can't do anything else for a long time.

I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better.

To leave a book is like leaving the better part of oneself.

Something struck me in Africa, in black Africa, where polygamy is legal: the solitary woman is the rule there, from at an extremely young age, and the children are always the mother's responsibility.

It is a different world today from what it was then. It will be a different world tomorrow from what it is today.

This is why it is important never to pick or smell flowers, and to always wear headgear when admiring them.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

Separate but equal is terrible for education but it's perfect for eyebrows.

Many a man who goes to Las Vegas to get away from it all soon finds that Las Vegas gets it all away from him.

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

I've admired Bill Kauffman's books for years . . . appealing, elegantly written, and entirely American.

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

Some succeeded because they are destined to, but he succeeded because he was Determined to.

I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.