The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us.

I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is good and bad nature. It is all in where you stand at the time.

Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.

In a democracy in the 20th and 21st century, if you can't base your fiction upon ordinary people and the issues that engage them, then you are reduced to writing about spectacular unreal people. You know, James Bond or something, and you cook up adventures.

irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?