Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.

Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.

I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.

I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

READ! Books can be as delicious as hot-fudge sundaes, as funny as clowns, as exciting as a baseball game that's tied in the 9th inning, and as beautiful as the best sunset you ever saw.

Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.

I've been toldThat it's not enough toWish for dreams, that IHave to work themInto reality.

Selfishness is the unwillingness to give up your soul for the rehabilitation of your future.

Everyone lives by selling something.

Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.

The quickest methods aren't always the fastest methods

Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution.

Things don't exist until they exist.

With gifts, you may gather your enemies about you. When giving nothing, even your own family will leave.

All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.