I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me.
When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.
There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.
A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.
She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.
She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.
A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.
I am not an American. I am the American.