There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.

the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.

There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.

... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.

War makes strangers bedfellows.