When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year

He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.

I was partially raised by an aunt who was a dress designer, so I was around her studio all of my early life. I know materials. I can look through Harper's Bazaar and decide what works and what doesn't, or any other magazine, Seventeen if you wish.

I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person.