About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

I'm wild again, beguiled again, a whimpering, simpering child again. Bewitched, bothered, bewildered am I.

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.

Life is no way to treat an animal.

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

As Marilee and I were dressing, I whispered to her that I loved her with all my heart. What else was there to say? 'You don't. You can't,' she said.