People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.

In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.