When there's a lot of it around, you never want it very much.

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.

It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.

the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.

It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.

it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse.

We are at war. War is not on battlefield. It is in boardrooms of companies that control your United States of America.

I don't find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I don't crave rich food.

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.

The story you are afraid to write is usually the one you are meant to tell.

In 21 years there are a lot of ups and downs. There are melancholy times. There are sad times. There are happy times. There are unsure times. There are life lessons.

My balance is really bad. I just hope my clumsiness doesn't show through.

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it.

If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.