I play the same album over and over until the people in my house are ready to kill me.

Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of what it is to be human.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

A force engaged is out of the hand of its commander.

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.

You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye.

Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

Your action expresses your priorities.

I just think women are funnier than men.

I think having eight kids evens things out a bit. You learn about the world; you learn about the world; you learn you've got to get along. We're all - if anything - very adjustable.

The only books that work are those which fly through the air - the ones you let happen, not make happen.