I'm no longer interested in the possible.

To approach the badlands is to find a gap in the known and expected world.

Either you suffer& die or you choose to fight& rebirth until dreams cometh true and reach you home.

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

Every relationship has its drama and baggage.

It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."

We must explain the truth: There is no free lunch.

I had a terrible dream when I was pregnant; I dreamt the baby had a ventriloquial mouth, but there was no hand hole; I had to flick the mouth down to get words out.

It remains an irrefragable law of history that contemporaries are denied a recognition of the early beginnings of the great movements which determine their times.

And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.