Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.

Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.

Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.