You want to know my name? --a hill, a tree. An empty drifting boat.

David, you’re my true love, why did we wait so long to get together? I don’t care what the world says. Let’s defy them all, my darling.- Maddy

The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order?

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!

Rushdie is a hostage.

Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.

American radio from the '30s through the '60s was just fabulous. There was such a diversity.

It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive.

People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.

O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness