Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation.

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It's not a question of clothes or makeup. It's how she sparkles.

I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.

The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

We write or we are written upon. The whole of our lives is the clumsy attempt to wield the pen with grace.

...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.

Come on, Forney.' Novalee, it's a parasite.' But it's a tradition.' It's a parasite! And you expect people yo stand under it and kiss?' Yes! it's what people do with mistletoe.

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

Valkyrie: “You are such a moron.” Skulduggery: “Don't be jealous of my genius.

My mother, she's like, She can work on herself.

The difference between the dinosaurs and us is that we have a space program and we can vote...

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to know next?