He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no.

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.

The need to create a citadel in which to hide from the world is characteristic of people with a schizoid disposition

Personal destiny is discovered through teachings

Tis better than riches To scratch when it itches.

I even do my ready-to-wear samples like couture.

I loved my kids. And I loved my house, and I loved a lot of things about my life in the 1950s. But there were a lot like me in that era, very overeducated housewives.

Сops have a tough job and sometimes it takes you being tough.

a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.

Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan.

People think about what they don't want and attract more of the same.

I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath.