Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

That's the difference between you and Greta. She has better things to do. She gets involved in clubs, activities. She has friends. But you? You slump around in that room of yours--

I have a slight oral fixation.

We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.

The sense of wonder, that is our sixth sense.

I'm talking ideal, I live in heaven, and my stomach is bottomless.

Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.

I believe it was Gayelord Hauser, the nutritionist, who said, 'You are what you eat,' but if you happen to be an intellectual, you are what you quote.

I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.

I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear.

I looked over and Jim Morrison was dancing the jitterbug with my grandmother on the coffee table.