I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.

There was a pleasant party of barge people round the fire. You might not have thought it pleasant, but they did; for they were all friends or acquaintances, and they liked the same sort of things, and talked the same sort of talk. This is the real secret of pleasant society.

E. Nesbit

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

George Bernard Shaw

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

Imelda Marcos

She going to be free now. She can go home to Jesus. Call me selfish, but I wanted her to go home with me.

Orson Scott Card

I think that making love is the best form of exercise.

Cary Grant

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Samuel Beckett

My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.

Thomas Jefferson

Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

Leo Tolstoy

Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.

Edward Hoagland

No man knows he is young while he is young.

G. K. Chesterton

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

Angela Thirkell