There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment.

No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.

No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time.

A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.

She would lift her peignoir above her knees and say to her husband: 'Give baby a kiss...'

If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy.

No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.

You do not reduce or eliminate your concerns by crying, shouting or proving you are the victim of whatever happened in your life.

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I guess there are some women who like older men, but it's a smaller group.

Every solution breeds new problems.

How come regional pandering only works in one direction, right? You never see a Southern politician trying to win votes in New York State by saying, 'I read books and make a mean vegan meatloaf.'

If the news is that important, it will find me.

They don’t eat that much.” “In comparison to what? Starving marines?

Yelling is a form of publishing

I do know that there isn't ever going to be a time when there aren't any knitters.

As politicians we have to make very difficult decisions and one...is when freedom of speech actually insults public safety.