There are 500 million people on Facebook, but what are they saying to each other? Not much.

I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted.

My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.

The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.

What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.

It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.

Using adverbs is a mortal sin.

At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know too much at the start takes the pleasure out of discovering what the book is about.

Try not to write the parts that people skip.

All the information you need can be given in dialogue.

Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.

Be the radiator of peace. Go to the center of your inner being. Radiate peace in every direction.

I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.

I do not believe anything very certainly, but everything very probably.

I just want to keep going with the soaps. Maybe it's because I'm just so used to them. I was 21 when I started 'Passions' and did that for nine years. It's what I know.

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?

Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening.

If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.

The only negative thing about murder is that when you kills someone they can no longer suffer

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator.