I put on lip balm first thing in the morning and always use it before I swipe on my red lipstick.
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
Oh, I never look under the hood.
I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty—everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?
There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
People are so phobic and crazed about this word 'commitment. ' It's weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of morality.
Looking back on it now, I understand why that was not possible [to express ourselves], because the pottery employed a dozen people, not all of whom are making pots. And these people had families, children, and they had to have a wage that would allow them to raise their family and they had to get a paycheck every Friday afternoon. So if we had not made pots that would sell it, would not have been possible for these people to be employed.
I was going to be a teacher and improve the world. Teach people with hooks for hands to fingerpaint, and teach bums to draw happy faces on beads.
There is nothing more precious than laughter