You really are a chameleon, aren't you? Fitting in wherever you go."Aren't we all?" she said...

Truth is worse than soap in the eyes.

The kitchen of the Big House was always one of my favorite places. Airy and sunny. No modern cabinets or anything like that. Just a room full of windows, set into wise, worn walls.

The kitchen door, painted red from the day Naomi moved in, and a geranium, also red, outside on the stoop, gave the whole area a feeling of whimsy.

You'll be just fine, " he said. "Listen to your heart and mind together, that's the trick. Not one or the other, both.

You're a girl on fire. And it seems to me, you been dousing those flames for years. Let yourself burn a little.

There's a great deal of power in pretending.

Pain is like a map, I guess. But I found my shortcut on my "map of the heart." Shortcuts always take longer, don't they?

Too much work, I guess, to figure out each person as a whole instead of parts of this and parts of that.

I'd forgotten so many important things. I'd stolen away my own past. It made me feel like a coward.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.I wish you all very good lives.

Occasionally you can hear her howl, when the sky is black and the moon is full.

The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself.

When my husband first read a draft, he said, "You spend too much time describing the characters' outfits." He was right. I removed much of the clothes talk, but quite a bit remained.

If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.

I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell.

Chastity is now treated as a sexual problem.

Truth is always duller than fiction.

I may be a fool, but I intend to be a live fool.

There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth.