The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

After ten pages I felt that Nietzsche was reading me, not I him.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of - it's just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be.

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

Abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity.

What has stayed true in my life as a writer is my dedication to writing - I try to write every day, no matter what - and the joy that writing has given me.

I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.

Work Hard, Enjoy what you do and be good to other human beings, we all equal, Being a good persons whats make you special.

You never agree with any one candidate 100 percent. I don't agree with myself 100 percent. You don't even agree with me 100 percent.

I always thought of running as just dancing forward.