Janet Flanner

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.

I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.