I would prefer you not to say, "That was the most terribly written piece I've ever read." That would hurt me. But you don't think I'm the best person in the world? Well, alright.

I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.

You really can't say things that upset someone in print and expect them to be nice and leave you their money. That's just not reasonable.

God is a God of Lovingkindness.

One of the things about parents and children is that there is no way that you go through this without there being mutual anger.

We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.

Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.