I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy

I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying of the year and mystery as well.

My greatest fortune was that I was ordered to take up art for the good of my health

Often is the worst of you that makes the best of you

Inspirational quotes are only making you more miserable.

Limitations in life are caused by ignorance.

Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to speak.

An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.

Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.

Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.

My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?” What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way.