Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.

For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.

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

I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.

Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart

For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.