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America is not a country, it is a world.
There is only good art and mediocre art.
And what is more generous than a window?
Some people are boys longer than others.
He bit the nape of my neck and I moaned.
I was nervous about writing Slow Regard.
We are more than the parts that form us.
I love you breathlessly, my amazing man.
I rather like getting away from fiction.
The real boneheads are the libertarians.
Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.
Friendship either finds or makes equals.
Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.
Never promise more than you can perform.
Humility neither falls far, nor heavily.
It is a bad plan that cannot be altered.
Practice is the best of all instructors.
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
It is bad advice that cannot be changed.
In quarreling, the truth is always lost.
Always shun whatever may make you angry.
They live ill who expect to live always.
Los Angeles is just New York lying down.
Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
Worship is adoring contemplation of God.
I'm still alive. And I'm still fabulous.
If you must fail ... fail spectacularly!
Never underestimate a clown with a book.
Not to write, for many of us, is to die.
Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.
I have fun with ideas; I play with them.
I welcome questions. I hate assumptions.
In order to win, you must expect to win.
The gull sees farthest who flies highest
It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.
compromise is the work of mature people.
See things from the boy's point of view.
Good is a noun rather than an adjective.
Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle.
As you get older, you do just get tired.
Men play the game; women know the score.
Death is mighty, and is no one's friend.
Both triumph and disaster are impostors.
Americans like fat books and thin women.
Motivations are too tangled and complex.
Is there an existence that is only mine?
I believe good writing can save bad art.
If you enjoy reading something, read it.
Your aspirations are your possibilities.