I don't take gifts from perfect strangers — but then, nobody is perfect.

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.

... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.

With two teenagers in the house, we sometimes experience a degree of domestic turbulence that sounds, to my ear, like a boiling teakettle filled with hormones shrieking on a stove.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

You've got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the character is, what they're like, what kind of attitude they have, what sort of role they play.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.

We don't have time for tone. We have to go out and get the job done.

Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!