The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.

That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write for the whole world, and you don't write for ten people, or two. You write for just one person.

We were German-Americans in a British colony, so we were outsiders.

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.

My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.

Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in love with this man. They don't make memories like that anymore

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.