I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.

That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the fact that the attitude toward the food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those forms of bigotry against which gallant little committees are constantly planning campaigns in the cause of justice and decency.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

Merton Miller

My mom obviously had a problem.

Dave Pelzer

Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.

Mignon McLaughlin

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Donald Trump

An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.' 'Oh really, that's interesting: one didn't think there was a class system in the United States.' 'Nobody does. That's how it survives.

Christopher Hitchens

More or Less Love Poems #11:No babeWe'd neverSwing together butthe syncopationwould be something wild

Diane di Prima

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Albert Camus

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

Duke Ellington

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. James 4:14

Bible

Why should the devil have all the good tunes?

Rowland Hill