One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.

A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

People who are genuinely involved in life, not just living a routine they've contrived to protect them from disaster, always seem to have more demanded of them than they can easily take on.

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose their places without regard to propriety or custom.

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.