[Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah.

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

Family. A snug kind of word.

The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands.

Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.

I would rather regret what I have done than what I have not.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're a harassed tribe, we writers.

Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.

And for the sake of humility--a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of such bad religion ourselves.

I disliked numbers, and they didn't think much of me either.

Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

All clients' needs and expectations are vastly different.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward.

The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the citizen for his civic functions in community life.

I'm very grateful to be where I'm at and be able to play. That's really the bottom line for me. Survival and being able to play.

We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!