It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he put down his fork and stared at me fo….

As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts..

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes do….

If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he….

I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it ou….

When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will co….

Comfort has its place, but it seems rude to visit another country dressed as if you’ve come to mow its lawns..

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you..

We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a ….

Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it..

I always think it's a good policy to like the people who like you..

Write relentlessly, until you find your voice. Then, use it..

I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met..

States vote to take away my marriage rights, and even though I don't want to get married, it tends to hurt my feelings. I guess what bugs me is that ….

As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character..

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings..

Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read..

At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I fai….

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character..

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later..

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part ….