I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

I was always the last woman on the last down elevator as the store was closing.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

Some enterprising youth should go from door to door on Christmas morning peddling batteries.

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

Adversity tries You Before it tries the rest

Yeah I know. No one can know what you're doing or who you trust or don't trust, etc., etc.

We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world.

The end is low, like all quantitative ends, personal or not, and it can be attained and verified.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

Also, to be honest, my dad wanted me to be an athlete. And I think all sons want to prove something to their dad. So now, aged 35, I want to see what I can achieve physically.

This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.

There aren't any good guys, and there aren't any bad guys. There's just us. People. Doing our best to get by.

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.