Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason.

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.

Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

Class, she reminded herself, was the real marker in America.

Faith in yourself and faith in God are the key to mastery of fear.

Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.

Women have to be the biggest champions in the world of other women's choices.

I would never want to change myself to be someone I'm not.

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.

Feelings change facts.

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

Make hiring a top priority.

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.