My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.

Nobody gets anything for nothing.

This is desire, daughter, the endless piercing that informs the universe throughout eternity,

Optimists are usually inexperienced.

Life was such a precious thing, easily broken.

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.

The loss was not bad luck. It was bad analysis.

I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.

How dare the world define beauty. God defined beauty when he made you! You are beautiful, you are a true beauty just the way you are!

Those who don't have a wife should sublimate their sexual energies with outdoor sports or long walks.

Every man makes a god of his own desire

The word abbreviation sure is long for what it means.