10 Quotes by zelda popkin

What he found impossible was to shut off his brain, to detach himself from the intriguing problems with which (he) was involved, or to leave alone the major problems of war and peace, race and poverty, man's inhumanity to man and the persistence of stupidity.

No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.

Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread.

New York’s the place where you can have a private life. You can do anything, be anything you please. New Yorkers mind their own business. Police cars, ambulances, fire engines – nobody even turns around for them. We go to the movies for excitement.

Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit.

Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.

A country inn is a percolator. News seeps, simmers, and bubbles.

Each husband gets the infidelity he deserves.

There’s no privacy for the violently dead.