Failure is falling up!

Love isn't love until someone makes a mistake.

this one-way rocket to Death in Adulthood" "Normal Time" in New California Writing

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen wind and weather permitting.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's fun to write 'Gossip Girl.' I do tend to just talk about anything.

Famous people like to choose friends who won't go around repeating their conversations and details about them.

There's two things you need to know. One, that you won't quit on yourself, and two, that I've done the work.

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

The idea of having a large family, I definitely had a romantic notion of it.

It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.