We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time.

I am a working woman with a secret life: I keep house.

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.

Home is the one place in the world where you are safe from feeling put down or out, unentitled, or unwanted.

Most people miss an opportunity because they fear to knock on the door.

If you have anything to tell me of importance for God's sake begin at the end.

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

Major writing is to say that which has been seen, so that it need never be said again; so that which has been seen increases, changes in reality, in being.

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.

Look to see what you most desire in your life, then ride that feeling all the way to creation.

Good shoes and a good scent make the perfect day.

You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.

I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.