Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

It's worth your life to order an omelette in most restaurants. You never know what you're going to get.

I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.

The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.

All artists are two-headed calves.

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to the scrupulous method of good taste and scientific grooming, the trick had been worked by exaggerating defects; she'd made them ornamental by admitting them boldly.