You have to write the book that wants to be written.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.

She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget her fears.

Art is communication.

We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.

Like and equal are two entirely different things.