Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.

Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.

Spring ... made fair false promises which summer was called upon to keep.

I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice-they all make fine fuel.

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.