I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

A dwarf will always tell tall stories.

Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were.

Life is the light of love.

I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

You need to be a person who makes things happen.

One way to remain unfinished is to stop. the other is to go on.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

Give me coffee! I'm going to write!

Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown