I think that friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.

All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.

The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy.

The books are always there, just the way you wrote them. The plays often don`t turn out the way you wanted them to because in the theater, you`re always involved with collaborators and they don`t always see the work the way you do.

True sorrow is as rare as true love.

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.