Zelda Popkin Quotes

No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.

Every door opens to something and it is better to go toward that something than to sit staring at the blank wall of time.

Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit.

pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future.

Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.

Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread.

Each husband gets the infidelity he deserves.

There's no privacy for the violently dead.

A country inn is a percolator. News seeps, simmers, and bubbles.