I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

Most of our love is shabby stuff, but there is always a thin line of gold, the bit of pure love on which all the rest depends -- and which redeems all the rest.

confession ran in the family.

The best thing about being God would be making the heads.

Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.