Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour

Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.

The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.

What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.

You are a lamp to give light to people

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.

It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.

One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.

No one knows what women want!

When you are free from self-doubt, you fail better. You accept criticism and listen.

It's all flags, fireworks, family, food and fun That's July Four July Five, the fun is done The fireworks are no more

A man is saved only by faith ... only by faith.

When you've got Roger Ailes on your side, you do not lose.

If ever you want to touch the hand and the heart of God Almighty, you can do it through the body of someone you love. Anytime. Anywhere. Without no middleman.