Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.

Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning.

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.

Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice.

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

An army of lovers shall not fail.

One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"