You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.

A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.

Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon.

Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.

All the difference in the world between the movies and the thrill I get out of a play at the theater. Ay, yes! Like fooling around with paper dolls when you could be playing with a real live baby.

In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker, and the buildings are higher, and the streets are wider, and the air is finer, than the sky, or the grass, or the girls, or the steaks, or the air of any place else in the world.

Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to.