What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour

Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.

The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.

Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.

Today is nothing but a snapshot of a place I've been, but not the place I'll always be.

If God does not exist, everything is permitted.

But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine beings.

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.

From here on out, I am only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that's it. That's all I'm interested in.

Some mythological fat asswipe drives our national economy.

I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator.

Hey, Vickie, why don't you come down here and reprimand me to my face!

There is no enemy more vicious than your own anger.