I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help.

The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it.

There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.

The part we play is not as we want it, but as we are made-with the genitals God gave us.

I've finally learned not to want things I cannot have.

Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of their need.

None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.

Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.

To fear the bourgeois is bourgeois.

Wouldn't a laugh serve us better than to battle it out with our mortal souls?

To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It is finally the only story we give to someone we love.

The typewriter is indeed my passport into a world otherwise barred to me and my kind.

Living someone else's dream is truly a nightmare. None should forfeit their life's aspirations to toil for the goals of another. Unity of purpose is a sentence. Collectivism is a crime

Misfortunes come to all men.

Donald O'Connor was in the film [ 'Singin' in the Rain' ] as well, and he was only 27 years old. So we were closer in age, and had more fun together on the set. Gene was more my teacher and mentor.

Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager.

If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

Our bread and water are of one table: the progeny of Adam are as a single soul.

When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.