We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.

Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.

compromise is the work of mature people.

A narcissism shared by two.

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.