Then marry me. For I love you, and I do not believe there is anything so wrong with you. You are fair in my eyes and you lie fair on my heart.

The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point that you think you've done a story justice, you're in the wrong business.

When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.

Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.

The story is always better than your ability to write it.

I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have no choice - and if you have no choice, good luck to you.

There are things you don't want to know you can do

My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.

Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.

[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.

It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.

When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.

If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past.

Never settle for less than your dreams, somewhere, sometime, someday, somehow, you'll find them

As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure.

All we know is that you are, if you will, the acme of perfection.

Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.

Not to intermarry racially is bad for the survival of the country.

"World War III, was the Cold War, and the U.S. won it".

Mmm, he rumbled into my ear. I thought that being married meant that I never go to bed hungry.

For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure.