I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands.

I was always a good housekeeper. Whenever I divorced I always kept the house.

I always said marriage should be a fifty-fifty proposition. He should be at least fifty years old, and have at least fifty-million dollars.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?

A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it.

I learned in school that money isn’t everything. It’s happiness that counts. So momma sent me to a different school.

To have twenty lovers in one year is easy. To have one lover for twenty years is difficult.

I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.

Doubt is a difficult animal to master because it requires that we learn the difference between doubting God and doubting what we believe about God. The former has the potential to destroy faith

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.

Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.

Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces, which is what the thinking mind does.

Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.

If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.

The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.

I had a short story collection come out in 2006, and then I couldn't work on large projects for a long time because I was finishing my doctoral degree.