Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

People always think their world is coming to an end if they're exposed, and of course it isn't coming to an end; it goes right on exactly the way it always was.

I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules.

Is it possible that my sons-in-law will do toilets? If we raise boys to know that diapers need to be changed and refrigerators need to be cleaned, there's hope for the next generation.

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.

Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.