As far as ideas about book design: I have plenty. But I also try and let people do their jobs.

If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

I believe my friends think I'm funny. All the books are full of humor. Maybe it is a quiet sort of humor that masquerades as not-much-at-all. It is certainly easy to miss.

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages.

I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

We tire differently if we love or love not.

Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it.

The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird.

In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.

Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's not so much about the money, but it's about (being a) woman.

Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.

If you're not arguing, your coalition isn't wide enough.

Memory is each man's poet-in-residence.

When you're with the person you love, you're home.

Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on my plantation.