You can browse to your heart's content but it's hard work and not easy on the feet unless you do it through catalogs or the Internet, and I like to touch and try on the things I buy.

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.

I'm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.

My work caused me to interview hundreds of women about their lives and their problems.

I have only one reader - me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry about.

the rich are different only because people treat them as if they were.

For my part, I think that the mystery is always greatest where there is the most - emptiness.

it is strange, is it not, how an accident of millimeter here, a millimeter there, makes one face so important.

Pm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.

It’s like you’re always living in your head. . . . Relax and appreciate your surroundings a little.

If you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt. Once we cross the deepest part of hurt, it doesn’t hurt anymore. . You become part of the eternal journey of love commences again

In the long run the pessimist may be proved to be right but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.

He stole horses' you'll say to yourself, 'and he didn't care for women; and but for my pride I'd have been with him now.

Nickel for my thoughts, dimes in my bed. Quarters of the kush shape the lines in my head.

Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz.

If it's a story that I feel is exciting and necessary, those are really motivating factors for me.

I know that I'm here - I believe that I'm here for a purpose. I believe in forces of fate.

On a personal level, you wear different masks.