It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.

The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour

Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.

What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.

Life is a difficult thing to understand. It makes us too much happy and suddenly takes away the happiness. But we should smile in every phase of the life.

My mom always said fighting with me as a kid was like going to court. I'm trying to realize that being right is not the most important thing.

Every personal experience of my life impacts my music.

But if you don’t take the necessary steps to make them happen, dreams are just mirages that mess with your head!

This new baseball is like a golf ball. I think there are going to be a lot more dents put in the wall at Fenway Park this year.

Before games, the smell of burgers wafts down from the stands.

Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.

It is because nobody has been teaching you about hate; hence, hate has remained pure, unadulterated. When a man hatesyou, you can trust that he hates you.

[Barack Obama] still fighting these mysterious, powerful forces trying to stop him, yet he's the president.

The words loved me and I loved them in return.