There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.

Even when we say nothing our clothes are talking noisily to everyone who sees us, telling them who we are, where we come from, what we like to do in bed and a dozen other intimate things.

We say something every morning when we decide how to dress.

Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world

The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they do not choose to accept.

You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.

We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.

If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.

There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

Peace cannot be kept by force

I don't write novels about expeditions to the planet Mars because I haven't been there and I don't know anything about it.

Neither Goyl nor men lived long enough to understand that yesterday was born of tomorrow, just as tomorrow was born of yesterday.

We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

I have a good friend who says, "We're all just dodging bullets." It seems to me the trick to living a good life is to try to move away from the gun you turn on yourself.

All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.

Self-compassion - being supportive and kind to yourself, especially in the face of stress and failure - is associated with more motivation and better self-control.

As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British.

All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.