My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.

There's no such thing as free love. Have you seen the price of Viagra?

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic... The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

Wildflowers don't care where they grow.

We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I didn't have books at home so I did all my reading at school. I love books and I believe that helping kids to read gives them a great start in life.