I slept well that night because someone had been kind to me.

My scalp tingled like Christmas candy on a cold tongue.

Boredom is actually the most plentiful substance in the universe.

It's a silly thing, but I like to understand people through their obsessions.

I hate traveling and being away from my family. But I like meeting my readers, as what I write is actualized in them. Those encounters are exhilarating to me.

These women need to feel that we're all aware of what they may be going through, to give them the confidence to speak out.

When you ignore what people are saying on a daily basis, calling for the annihilation of your country, you are ignoring them at your own risk.

I have a feeling that when my ship comes in I'll be at the airport.

There is no art when one does something without intention.

...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.

Why not pick up the new full-length motion picture at the corner drugstore and then run it through one's home TV receiver?

All these feelings need to be felt. We need to stomp and storm; to sob and cry; to perspire and tremble.

It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can't know it will be the last.

Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun!