Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.

No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.

Every door opens to something and it is better to go toward that something than to sit staring at the blank wall of time.

Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit.

pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future.

Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread.

Each husband gets the infidelity he deserves.

There's no privacy for the violently dead.

A country inn is a percolator. News seeps, simmers, and bubbles.

Ensure that your fame doesn't bring you shame.

God has planned the world too perfectly for me to doubt that everyone is where they are supposed to be.

The reason I have felt so empty, so lost at times, is because you were missing.

Here's the thing: I had never been to Boston, my whole life. Probably because I'm a Yankee fan.

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

Fluency in English is something that I'm often not accused of.

Ultimately we've only got humanity to work with. It's only clay we've got.

There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them.

Even if tomorrow will be the end of the world, people will still continue to watch television for whole day!

It is a fact that all the ballet's fundamental dance steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.