Everything that begins, begins with blood.

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love-words, the tenderness learned, and treasured up for the next lover.

New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on.