I, the lone inhabitant of my body and life, am inescapably large to myself, but also ridiculously, inconceivably small.

Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup.

How strange it was that a dream, once realized, could quickly turn mundane.

I think the posture of confidence can serve you well. I'm not sure what's to be gained by sitting at your computer and beating yourself up.

Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.

I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's the enemy when I'm writing short stories.

If you get discouraged about a section of a novel, that can be more catastrophic than getting discouraged about an individual story.

And stay, my dearstay...forever, as my quiet song, in my lilac dawn.

People usually reveal only those aspects of life that enhance their personality & image, but in my case I love amusing people by being myself!

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

Ive worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.

If one gets his life together, there will be enough love and bounty to take care of every avenue of life.

What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.

The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.

I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.

You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won't back down.

There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.