I'm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.

My work caused me to interview hundreds of women about their lives and their problems.

I have only one reader - me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry about.

the rich are different only because people treat them as if they were.

You can browse to your heart's content but it's hard work and not easy on the feet unless you do it through catalogs or the Internet, and I like to touch and try on the things I buy.

For my part, I think that the mystery is always greatest where there is the most - emptiness.

it is strange, is it not, how an accident of millimeter here, a millimeter there, makes one face so important.

Pm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty........ but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

Don't quarrel with yourself

Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.

I've grown tired of resting on my laurels and have decided to start resting on my failures.

Oh, my. I'd forgotten how much I hate space travel.

Gas stations are considering hiring security guards. Why are they getting security guards? We're the ones getting robbed.

Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.

My acting range? Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.

Every time a Republican wins the White House, whenever Republicans win control of Congress, the Drive-Bys always claim that the message is voters want a balanced and divided government.

The crucial question for any policy is not what, are its intentions, but what are its effects?