
My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.

I'd never seen men hold each other. I thought the only things they were allowed to do was shake hands or fight.

Humor comes from self-confidence.

Every place has unsolved crimes because people don't want to know.

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

Tennis is physical chess.

No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

Small log cabin once stood near the creek, but as the Jones family's fortunes

All wars are grotesque blasphemies against God's greatest gift: Life. Until

Love is the wild card of existence.

I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.

Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors.

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

Everybody gets married. It's something you have to do, like dying.

The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.

When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.

I'm not an addictive personality, I just like getting high, that's all.

Gossip is irresponsible communication.

Divorce: fission after fusion.

Writers will happen in the best of families.

humans are much more like sheep than cats. They're easily led and they don't look where they're going until it's too late.

Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.

The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.

There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.

We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.

Life is too short to be miserable.

Whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.

I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.

Dad could charm a dog off a meat wagon.

There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.

I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two ...

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.

Self-pity is the simplest luxury.

To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.

All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
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When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

I believe in art that conceals art.

Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.

I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.

Compromise is the work of mature people.

If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

You're nothing in America if you don't have debt.

Life's too short to try and understand cold-blooded creatures.

Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.