What church could compete with the fireworks of the pure soul?

Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea, there'll be no "charge" left. You can't father children that way.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

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.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.