Golf courses are beautiful, it's good for the soul and it gets out the anger... well, if you don't care about the score then you won't have a heart attack.

There were many ways to lie without saying something that wasn't true. I was learning that the hard way.

I try to drum each day. It's therapeutic.

My vote is my secret.

Motherhood . . . is an act of infinite optimism.

I think even in today's America, there's a sense that there's something vaguely sexy about cigarettes.

It seems that every generation needs its public, tweedy, literary personality to sell its consumer electronics. To whatever degree I can live up to the Plimptonian legacy, I am humble and proud.

Improve human intelligence to get Osama bin Laden.

To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.

Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.

Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.