What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.

The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.

she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never had

He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.

I was rather a goody-goody as a child... It was only later on I discovered that you could be naughty and get away with it.

Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined.

...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.

To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing.

, Be generous, giving grows your spirit just as reading grows your intellect.

A smile you gift is a smile you earn… Gift a smile to your parents, friends, or even a stranger.

If you want to create a memorable company, you have to fill your company with memorable people.

There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

You nine daughters of Jupiter, sisters of one heart.

I've always understood money; it's not a big mystical thing to me.

When you create something that connects, your story will travel faster than ever before.

Having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. Only stupid people or fools would think it was bad.

If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.

Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?