Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

I was constantly being dragged out of movies for laughing too loud.

Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

I don't believe I've ever truly appreciated flowers before tonight.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything...

Never face reality unless your reality is just the way you want it to be.

When you seek to dominate another you dominate no one but disempower yourself.

Fate is a funny character. She puts obstacles in your path to see what character ye have. Life isn't fair,life is a test.

There are just two questions to ask to attain success in business: First, "What business am I in?" Second, "How's business?"

Where there's fear, there is power.

[Please let my daughter] not have to wear high heels.

You can cry, ain't no shame in it.