We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.