Tell people the truth, they laugh. The truth is so tragic they have to pretend it's a joke.

A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor

Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive.

A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running.

Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.

Nobody's ever satisfied until they've been dead a good week.

My husband believed that all women who want to should be free, equal, independent, creative, well informed, and lead stimulating, interesting lives. Except me.

People of character don’t allow the environment to dictate their style.

A woman can do anything she wants as long as she doesn't do anything she wants! She can go anywhere she likes as long as she stays put!

Beware the beguiled, they do their own beguiling.

Fortunately, like all good things, Christmas Day does come to an end.

Happiness will never flourish in a life bereft of optimism.

My turn shall also come:I sense the spreading of a wing.

Why are you looking at me? His eyes search mine for several long seconds before he holds contact and whispers, " Because I like your face.

It's hard to do, " I said. Wes looked at me. "What is?" I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. "Get it right.

But if love can be funny and capricious, it can also be strong enough to seem like a sign of insanity.

My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

I'm usually at home and in bed by 10 o'clock. I do not want to be out at anybody's New Year's Eve party.

I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I thought it was a pretty good story but I had no idea that many people felt like that.

I've spent a lot of time being bohemian and sleeping on floors, but eventually I want to have kids and I want to bring them up in a secure environment.

The argument about marriage equality will one day seem as arcane and shocking to us as the fact that Rosa Parks had to get up and go to the back of the bus.