Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.

The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about

A funny thing about tolerant people? They're really only tolerant when you agree with them.

Work is the least important thing and family is the most important.

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.

Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.

You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

You can't solve problems for someone whose problem is that they don't want problems solved.

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.

The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a journey into the presence of the Gaian mind.