When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.

Nobody gets anything for nothing.

Like any / unloved thing, I don’t know if I’m real /when I’m not being touched.

SUICIDE can be considered an act of MURDER committed on ONESELF

The more "things" I have, the more time I spend thinking about them, moving them around, fixing them, looking for them, or upgrading them.

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

My essential identity is that of a writer.

A lot of people want to change the world, but only a few people want to change themselves. When it comes to the issue of race in America, we have to do both.

A two-and-a-half-year-old is pretty experienced at making a mess, anyway.

God's peace is joy resting. His joy is peace dancing.

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats