She will prolong her life by the length of her story, even though time will wear on inexorably as she tells it, thus depriving her of the chance to have a new experience.

Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.

No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an ability to offer solace. Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.

Many young people are still driven to art, as in olden times. Most of them are driven by their parents, who know nothing about art—only that it exists.

Her body is one big refrigerator, where Art is well stored.

Money never goes out of fashion.

I don’t know. We’ve kissed. It was nice.”“Nice? Nice is getting an extra shot of espresso in a latte. Nice is finding a dollar on the street. Nice is generic.

Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.

The soul-sacred strength is calmness and confidence.

no-one would want to go through a traumatic experience but when you’ve survived something life-shattering and risen above it, you achieve a kind of serenity.

Whatever is-is best.

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.

I like good company, but I like hard work still better.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.

I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.