[Some people think] that storytelling is telling jokes. So they have to be discouraged! Then others think that storytelling-is like an encounter group . . .

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.

Intelligence forbids tears.