After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.

I always wear boot polish on my eyelashes, because I am a very emotional person and it doesn't run when I cry.

You become what you think. You are what you eat.

When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.

My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.

I'll keep going till my face falls off.

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.

Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes for it and when she is old she remembers it.

Good must triumph over evil. It usually does in life and in any case it's bad for young people to believe it doesn't.

Let's get rid of all the economic (expletive) this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!

The real issue is, how much goodwill do you invest in the work? And goodwill is not something that we can buy with money. It's very hard to buy goodwill with money.

In Cookie's defense, it was raining wildcats and rabid dogs.

His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.

We have now reached a turning point in the struggle between freedom and terror.

Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen.

People soften by the forced reflection that comes with loss.

The opposite of love? Vice. Temptation. The negative influences that we have. The bad energy that comes around us and makes us do certain things. To me, it's always been a war between the two.

I don't want to be surrounded by 'yes men'. I want people who'll disagree with me, even if it costs them their jobs.

My mother is my last point of security in relation to my past, and if that breaks, I will not ever have that type of pure love or pure attachment.