I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.
You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.
There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.
There is no one who would have me - I can't cook.
Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough.
I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.
Mr. Hitler was big on me. He kept writing and inviting me to come to Germany, and if the war hadn't started when it did, I would have gone and I would have taken a gun out of my purse and shot him, because I am the only person who would not have been searched.
My sense is that we are missing a huge part of the human story. I think it's possible, indeed probable, that we are a species with amnesia; that we've lost the record of our story going back thousands of years before so-called history began, and I think that if we could go back to that dark epoch, we would discover many astounding things about ourselves.
If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies.
Keeping a sense of humor about life. My parents divorced when I was 8, and whenever I felt down, my mom would remind me that a sense of humor gets you through just about anything.
The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.