Giving a party is like having a baby: its conception is more fun than its completion; and once you have begun it, it is almost impossible to stop.

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks.

For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.

swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.

to achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life.

Punctuality is the thief of adventure.

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

It's just as important to marry the right life as the right person.

librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.

It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.

Uncle Joe pulled the L.E.F. from his head and his side arm from his hip.... “We don’t have five minutes.

I never thought I was gonna live in LA. I thought I was gonna live in New York forever.

If you know what you want, you will recognize it when you see it.

I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.

To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned

You tell a kid he doesn't like to read, and he'll believe you

An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.

Used to be that my whole body was my canvas-hot cuts licking my ribs, ladder rungs climbing my arms, thick milkweed stalks shooting up my thighs.

I like people who can do things

I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.