[Children] would have messed up my apartment. In the main, they are ungrateful. They would have siphoned too much time away from the writing of my precious books.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

Boredom is a powerful reason, and the prospect of fun is a powerful draw - especially when you are young.

I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.

God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.

What you stop doing is just as important as the things you start doing.

Create the temperature of your passion!

Truly saddened by the loss of one of the greatest fashion icons of all time. Oscar de la Renta will be greatly missed.

Rosie Grier was the springboard to the return of my life.

Everyone is the architect of their own happiness

Miracles are everywhere to be found when the priesthood is understood, its power is honored and used properly, and faith is exerted.

Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger