Nothing is more trying than nerves to people who have none.
for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.
irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.
I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.
The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.
Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.