There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

Nobody really lives in the present.

There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.