Here is a hall without exit, a tunnel without end.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

Time is not rigid” It is destructible. It melts away before you know it.

I love cooking and one of my favourite things to do with my husband is open up the refrigerator.

I wake up in the morning and I say 'Ahh! Today's the day for a song! I'm going to write a song today!' And I do. I write a song.

There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight.

In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.

You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others.

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast

Your Imagination is YOU yourself, and the world as your Imagination sees it is the real world.

The Three Cs, I told myself. When you're not Comfortable with it, it's not a Compliment, it's Creepy.

I do think that people ought to have some control over their money, rather than the government, just mandating to them how they're going to invest their money.