I'm scarcely an enfant!

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

Policy was not reconsidered because the governing group had no habit of purposeful consultation.

The only possible match for someone who doesn't know how to receive is someone who doesn't know how to give.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home.

But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.

What you're normally doing as a writer is trying to find the narrative.

I have become increasingly unnerved by the depth of corruption that exists at many different levels. I'm less upset with politicians than [with] the media.

Rudy Giuliani is on the list [of Secretary of State ] not because of competence, not because of foreign policy experience, he's on most entirely because of loyalty to Donald Trump.

Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.

I don’t think Ed Reed has to take a back seat to anybody who ever played the position. ANYBODY.