If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.
The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.
Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.