Writers don’t care what they eat. They just care what you think of them

Harriet never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought, I could always learn.

I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach.

You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.

Don't mess with anybody on a Monday. It's a bad, bad day.

Gone is gone. I never miss anything or anyone because it all becomes a lovely memory. I guard my memories and love them, but I don't get in them and lie down.

There are as many ways to live as there are people.

Life is a struggle and a good spy gets in there and fights.

If you ever get in real trouble, don't panic. Sit down and think about it. Remember two things, always. There must be some way out of it and there must be humor in it somewhere.

There is no sight so ugly as the human face in anger.

Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

I'm brilliant as well as skilled, " he said modestly. "It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can.

Granted, this system is insane, but we must not let sanity stand in the way of airport security.

The first meal my husband ever made me was a chicken curry. I have never tasted anything so delicious in my life.

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.

A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.

If there's no other alternative, I support civilian trials for terrorists.

America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.

We must not stint Our necessary actions in the fear To cope malicious censurers, which ever, As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow That is new-trimmed, but benefit no further Than vainly longing.