This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out..

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk..

It took most people a lifetime to join the human race..

Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm..

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world..

'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind..

What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am..

In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts..

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind..

How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks..

Decades go faster toward the end of a century..

Speech isn't for agony..

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications..

I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity..

The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to..

Agony without genius was gaucherie..

Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon -- as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses what will happen ….

Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts..

First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life..

A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose..

But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never….