Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

Mute in that golden silence hung with green, Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyesRemembrance of all beauty that has been, And stillness from the pools of Paradise.

Say, ‘Thank you, Phin.’ ”“Oh, please.”“Say, Thank youvery much, Phin. ”“I don’t think so.”“Say, ‘You are a great lover, Phin.’ ”“I’m out of here.

The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.

I hate Billings Montana. They have a fashion show at Sears Roebuck - no models. You open a catalog and point.

Stick on your originality, yes I know few people will call you a boring person but millions will fall in love with you because of your authenticity.

Romantic love is one of the most addictive substances on Earth.

There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job.

Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.

I'm happy to be working with all women.

As women, we're always in negotiation with how we're being perceived versus how we feel.