I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Art must take reality by surprise.

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

I always believe things are going to work out.

Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.

When you work on what you love, you have the best job in the world.

Disappointment cannot exist without expectation. “The expected apricot is never as sweet when it reaches the mouth.

Love is the soul's music

Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss.

The last if not the greatest of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance.

It's better to buy one good pair of shoes than four cheap ones.

If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive.

The schools can't cover all the values that go along with how you handle your money. For example, a financial literacy class might not teach me to hate debt the way my grandmother, Big Mama did.

For all the concern about bodies and weight, 'Baywatch' has three huge catering trucks on the set at all times. One for entrees, one appetizers and one for junk food.