And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation.

A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about you write a whole book.

Is it ever possible to overdo the talking about the glory of Christ? Is it ever too often to be in God's presence?

For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.

You are the only person who can sell you, so you do spend a lot of time in your job by yourself everyday.

How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers?

I do not find God outside myself or conceive him except as my own and in me.

and there had been times when he wished he'd been born into a different family.

You can't get so interested in just making sounds. The point of it all is some kind of expression.

Q: Why do I love thee, O Night? A: Because you know I will never answer.