I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

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.

Keep your mind open. The meaning of things lies in how people perceive them. The same thing could mean different meanings to the same people at different times.

The only thing that compounds faster than interest is learning.

That woman wants to hear all my wishes, For already a thousand years, And each my thought knows to read, Even if I don't utter it aloud.

Billie laughed at that, full and throaty, and once again she became so incandescently beautiful that George was half-tempted to throw a blanket over her, just to stop anyone else from wanting her.

We are angrier with the sky than with our actions.

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.

The stones of a river start out rough, but with the current continually bumping and polishing them, they end up being beautiful.

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.