People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

We are all worthy of one another.

I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.

In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.

Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me.

A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.

Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease.

(Her husband's departure ...) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.From "Butterfly on F street

... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Maybe at the same time as I'm more confident today, I'm also more humble.

As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't full of personality, I was full of solitude and solemnity. I wasn't a cover-girl type.

We have denounced in all assemblies, in all places where we have had the opportunity to speak, the illegality of flights and the fact that there is a base against the will of the Cuban people.

I'd want to have a fair moderator. I thought that Mitt Romney was treated very unfairly in the third debate [in 2012].

The essential building block is...the true love that is impossible to define for those who have never experienced it and unnecessary to define for those who have.

There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of their country and their race.

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.

My father taught me a good lesson: Don't get to low when things go wrong. And don't get too high when things are good.