Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?
Truth is its own defense.
If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.
Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!
... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.
Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.