Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.

Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals.

There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.

We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it.

Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.

Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real.

Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life.

I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world.

Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess.

I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner.

Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another.

Do we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend?

I ride because there’s nothing like in the world. It’s a passion. It’s something I absolutely have to do and I can never imagine not doing it.

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.

I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier.

Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice.

The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.