You don't write. You get out of the way.

It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise.

How I became a better writer was that I kept writing.

This is not a meritocracy.

Everything I write is sinful, full of lies, especially the big one, the one you go to hell for: pretending not to be a fool.

Most of the deaths before seventy years old in our world, could actually be prevented if the various individuals had only treated their lives with more caution and sense of value.

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

One never forgets faces one wholeheartedly detests.

One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.

Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.

Life is full of all sorts of things, and I never expected to be a part of this. I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer. So you never know.

A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.

In my soul, I am still that small child who did not care about anything else but the beautiful colours of a rainbow.

God fully knows himself and all things actual and possible in one simple and eternal act.