But she's a nut, and nuts win.

... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.

I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.

Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.

The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.