A blank WALL of SOCIAL and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of SINGULAR and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional COUNSEL.

Writing is LIKE GETTING MARRIED. One should never commit oneself until one is AMAZED at one's luck.

When I was 50 YEARS old, I actually DECIDED to DRAW up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to MAKE efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much BETTER skier.

Criticism and PESSIMISM destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat NEARLY everyone, and SPREAD a shroud of gloom over entire NATIONS.

I GREW up in a lower-middle-class ENVIRONMENT, usually the lone MINORITY AMONG my CLASSMATES.

When you have kids, you SEE life through DIFFERENT EYES. You feel love more DEEPLY and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was AGREEABLE to those who were USED to it. They DRANK this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.

I find that Americans completely lack SENSIBILITY and good taste. They are BORING, and they all have faces LIKE unbaked ROLLS.

It doesn't WORK if the bad guys kill his MOTHER's UNCLE's friend's neighbor's PET dog. You've got to make the stakes high.