I feel as if I could be any thing or every thing, as if I could rant and storm, or sigh, or cut capers in any tragedy or comedy in the English language.

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

I will not talk of my own happiness, ' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?

Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.

I don't see much point in doing things for a pure joke. Every now and then you need a joke, but not so much as the people who spend all their lives constructing joke palaces think you do.

A lot of people like to be supertiny, but I don't want a child's body - I want a woman's body that is extremely fit. It's so much sexier.

This life is but the childhood of our immortality.

A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

Give me something to dance about and I'll dance it.

… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.

My sons named her Bridget because that way they always had their sister, Bridget, with them. People thought we were nuts because on the phone they'd hear us say, "Bridget, sit!"

I don't drink because I have problems or I want to escape. I just love drinking and being drunk.

Against the advice of my wife, I endorsed Arlen Specter. I should have listened to my wife.

Stardom is no longer the fuel of my soul. It is the deeper aspects of life that nurture me. And I realise I am very blessed.