The male - I have found - is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

Youve simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether theyll be there tomorrow, do you?

At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.

If you feel compelled to give a New Year's Eve party, don't invite people to arrive too early or they'll go off the boil before midnight.

People who can write a book usually do.

I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.

And I would really like to be a grandmother, but only when Felix or Emily meet the right person and are ready.

In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape.

...you can be talented as a wolf is breathtakingly fierce...silver and gray, like smoke in the trees - but what do you do with terrible beauty?...

The senators know it's important to win statewide to have Hispanics and other immigrant populations supporting them.

I think Id like to be able to heal peoples pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever.

It's probably the worst feeling in the world, when you're deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she's not feeling you the same way, and you don't know why.

I grew up without a father, and my mother grew up without a father and her mother grew up without a father. So we have this long heritage of growing up without fathers.

The common enemy is the white man.

Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it, but you don't want to see it again.