My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.

By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

You think too much, " she said."OK, no more thinking.

Father, I believe in Thy Word!

At my age, any day above ground and vertical is a good day.

It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.

I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday).

I'm a songwriter first.

Arizona is now recognized as a premier place in which to locate, expand and grow a business.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

I'm tall and thin but not strong, so you're either an athlete or you're funny.

science never threatens God - it opens up more possibilities.