Was it an insult to be called a “woman writer”? Didn’t it have a taint of, say, the “woman driver”?

Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar.

Nobody knows everything—one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn—and everybody makes mistakes.

So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom.

The better the writer, the more complicated the dangler.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

My life is only important if i can help plenty of people

If you think all this is going on, all these gigantic fields of gravity and light with you in mind, then you really do have a self-centredness problem.

Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.

Don't go backwards - you've already been there.

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.

Man Ray takes a lot of pressure off me. It's like having a third person in a conversation; one of you doesn't have to talk all the time.

I think everyone is their harshest critic, but I strive for excellence as much as I can because I think it shows.