Let me tell you something: You can live in a broken home, you can play with a broken toy, but you cannot love with a broken heart.

Women only cut their hair in times of crisis... It's somethin' a woman always has the power to do, even when she loses control over everything else. Cuttin' hair is a cry for help.

A little bit of suspicion is a dangerous thing; a drop from a pipette of poison into a bucket of otherwise clean water.

People aren't often asked to make life or death decisions. There are no causes to die for. You can go through life never knowing which of your friends would really come through for you

Discontented women are like pressure cookers. The steam rises and one day they just reach boiling point.

I think women sign on for some ideal when they get married, and when they realise they haven't got anything close to what they want, they bury their disappointment.

Children expect their mothers to love them, no matter what. Those who don't get this tend to feel cheated the rest of their lives.

You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive.

We're by-products of the mid-twentieth century", Oliver said. "Who isn't?

I love being in America.

And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware.

He tries to peel the image from the sticky yellow backing, to show her the next time he sees her, but it clings stubbornly, refusing to detach cleanly from the past.

I never went to church when I was in college, either.

When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.

If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous.

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.

I think if journalists were responsible for international policy we'd have a nuclear war every week.

Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.