you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.

I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

There are five things that societies do: They reproduce; they produce food; they organize themselves in terms of law; they organize themselves in terms of belief; and they make art. Four of them are about conformity, and in these, everything would go more smoothly if people just would shut up and do what they're told. But in art it doesn't work that way.

I have reared, or helped to rear, five children and the scariest bit, bar none, is the learning to drive part. It has filled me with anxiety not only about the children, but also about my former self and my friends.

But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses

it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.

There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.