Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

I've been called a stylist until I really could tear my hair out. And I simply don't believe in style. The style is you.

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.

There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing of the seasons. But human life is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own right and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.

Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.

Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.