I write every day. Writing is a necessity - like eating.

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.

A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.

I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.

One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.

I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.

Let me remind you of what got me this far, picture me quitting, now draw a circle around it and put a line through it, sl#t!

Most photographers work best alone, myself included.

As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

Poverty is a bitter weed to most women, and there are few indeed who can accept it with dignity.

No matter what time of year it's always funny when a person walks by me dressed in religious garb and I say Happy Halloween!

One thing I want you to understand is if I make a decision, it's my decision.

My whole staff love to laugh and count the money. On the couch, hands in our pants like Al Bundy.

Pure love of God is our nature, but we are so much diverted, so much distracted by the externals that we've forgotten that it's our essence.

To live is to fight. We just fight in different arenas.

If I feel like doing something, I do it. If I feel like saying something, I say it. If I feel like dancing, I do. If I don't, I don't.