... I've never found anything whatsoever that is as easy to do the right way as the wrong way, and if there is such a thing I would like to know about it.

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.

It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.

the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.

It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.

it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse.

Don't expect others to hand success to you. Create it - with heart, energy and enterprise - and you'll make it come true

I don't like when everything sounds the same.

I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind

In one way, I'm never going to get out of this material world unless it's by His grace but then again, His grace is relative to the amount of desire I can manifest in myself.

Presley sounded like Jayne Mansfield looked - blowsy and loud and low.

We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural.

I never skulk, and lurk only sometimes.

I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a character or an idea.

I don't know, monogamy is a weird thing for me.

The face of evil is always the face of total need.