Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.

Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.

When God made man she was practicing.

I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.

I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.