Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.

Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.