If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins.

Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my daughter wants to do what you do, my godson, my tennis partner.

She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.

He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.

The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.