Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

I watched as she, with a half-life-worth of anger and resolve, flickered into this dark night and tried with all her might to get back what was taken from her.

They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.

Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.

Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look.

The moon shows the truth of things.

I write to give myself strength.

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

Learn a little of anything, and you're ready to proselytize.

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

I like getting stuff out of the way so you can see something clearly, see it sharply, have it be new again.