In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

Will we ever reach a point when it is no longer necessary to say Them and Us? I believe we must reach that point, or perish.

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.

If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.

The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living.

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.

As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.

Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words.

What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

Great journeys live long in the memory of those who participate in them

He didn't pick her

We become increasingly aware that the human dream, the human drama, with all its questionable, damaging, and often malevolent intention is not real life at all.

It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool

No one needs a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses.

Music brings life to my soul.

You got to have style, and learn to be original.

If we learn to say we're sorry and ask forgiveness, the marriage will last.

It's amazing how far you will get by just staying with something long enough. Most people give up too early.