When I'm laid in my coffin, I want you to put a picture of my grandchild to the right of me and and a picture of my daughter to my left. That way they will be buried with me.

I didn't like mundane life.

Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.

I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry too often.

I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine.

Always keep a smile. I attribute my long life to that. I believe I will die laughing. That's part of my program.

I had to wait 110 years to become famous. I wanted to enjoy it as long as possible.

If you can’t do anything about it, don’t worry about it.

I only have one wrinkle and I'm sitting on it.

I think I will die laughing.

Wit doesn't make girls pretty.

The man that hath no music in himself Nor is no moved with concord of sweet sounds Is fit for treasons stratagems and spoils.

What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties.

The best theory is inspired by practice.

I wish I hated my own sin as much as I hate everyone else's.

My name became a brand and I'd love to say it was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I've stuck to that ever since.

When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by environments rather than by incidents and characters.

We need to support these women who are in crisis pregnancy situations.

That's the greatest comeback since Lazarus.

The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege.

When I get ready for an event, I always look at myself in the mirror and say, 'I look like a transvestite,' I love it.