None of the rest of my life figures here.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking

I don't know much about cars," Joyce said, "but I think someone took my engine.

Nothing personal - I am just doing my job.

I was a tomboy, not a girlie girl.

People who talk about peace are very often the most quarrelsome.

I know my debt of gratitude to the women who went before, I know my responsibility to young women coming forward.

Style is made up of whatever an author can't avoid doing.

When you meet someone who is truly great, he makes you believe you can be great, too.