We are at war, and in time of war there is only one rule. Form your battalion and fight.

I feel an emptiness open in my chest, coupled with a strange downward pull in my throat. I think, this is my heart sinking.

I never wanted to be safe... I wanted to be good.

There is no suspension, no whispered prayer for silk to stop my fall. There is only the falling, and it goes on and on, in fierce silence and sharp bursts of breath.

I never wanted to be safe, I wanted to be good.

I never wanted to safe... I wanted to be good.

I hate change more than almost anything.

For someone to be perfect, they must be real, however imperfect they are.

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

I've never had a stylist, and I've always chosen my own clothes.

...God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness

He did not say: You will not be assailed, you will not be belabored, you will not be disquieted, but he did said: You will not be overcome.

If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is.

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.