“A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways ...” — John Updike Quote

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.

American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.

I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through. I try not to read things that depress me.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

Belief, like love, must be voluntary.

Like your home's closets, your financial clutter needs an overhaul every now and again, and the payoff will go far beyond the psychic satisfaction of neatening up.

I was a very naive kid. I didn't know there were people living in closets in Hollywood.

My twin sister, my cousin, and I used to write and perform plays for my family. We raided the closets for costumes and fought over parts. I'm sure I was the bossiest one.

I think a lot of women have too many mini skirts in their closets.

My house is completely organized from my closets to my drawers.