Lillian

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

People change and forget to tell eachother.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.

To believe in something to yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the only way we can leave the future open.

There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.

Happiness is not in having being it is in doing.

Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people.

Sure i'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.