The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

[Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah.

Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative.

Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.