My father represented authority, which meant—to me—that he could not also represent understanding.

My father represented authority, which meant—to me—that he could not also represent understanding.

Your reader is at least as bright as you are

A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.

It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer.

My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went into my room and closed the door and played with.

I am the cat that walks alone.