If you think with enough energy about a hoped-for event, it will in the end happen. Not because you willed it. Because it was all the time in your nature.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.

They might not like your uniqueness, but as long as you are happy with your inner-self, you should never dare to change your life to please them.

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.

Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.

What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!

The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

As a lifelong romance reader, its always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!

If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.