“Indian summer is like a woman.”

“There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth.”

“The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.”

“I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste.”

“If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.”

“She saw hopelessness as an old enemy, as persistent and inevitable as death.”

“Near home I ran through our park, where I had aired my children on weekends and late-summer afternoons. I stopped at the northeast playground, where I met a dozen young mothers intelligently handling their little ones. In order to prepare them, meaning no harm, I said, In fifteen years, you girls will be like me, wrong in everything”