Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand u….

It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun..

What does one save for, anyhow? For a few tired hours at the end of life when one sits and counts dollars? Or do we save so that those last years wil….

I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the way….

Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard.

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along..

I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opini….

Regrets are as personal as fingerprints. Discarding what is vain or false, facing the facts that should truly disturb your conscience, is worth whate….

Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true..

Regrets are as personal as fingerprints..

You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct?.