This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.

I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.

If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.

Conflict is the soul of literature.

A man assumes that a woman's refusal is just part of a game. Or, at any rate, a lot of men assume that. When a man says no, it's no. When a woman says no, it's yes, or at least maybe. There is even a joke to that effect. And little by little, women begin to believe in this view of themselves.

Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.