Sometimes I wish I could feel more painso I could touch that much more beauty.

Darkness crept through. Shadows pried at doors, teased dull edges of recollections that never quite took hold. Memories that would have shriveled under the blinding sun of daylight. And reason.

The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies~Aristotle

I think women should wear whatever makeup they want for themselves. Makeup should be fun.

I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape.

Boston is large enough to learn your independence and small enough to make your own.

If we all had all we wanted to eat, we'd crap too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry.

No one writes about the emotional things you go through.

When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.