Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.
To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.
It was as if they had climbed the last hill in creation.
Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.
I fought fire with oil.
Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.
Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
You're so easy to read but the book is boring me.
Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
Never accept a drink from a urologist.
I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.
Tolerance cannot seduce the young.
Every decision you make is a mistake.
Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.
Ideas are the root of creation.
They are not long, the days of wine and roses.
Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.
Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.
All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing.
All we are asked to bear we can bear.
I really try to focus on my books and readers.