Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.

Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.

In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.

Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.