... home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.

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

Imported actors, like certain wines, sometimes do not stand the ocean trip. This can be as true of American actors in Europe as it is of European actors in America.

writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a writer, conversationally. If a writer has anything witty, profound or quotable to say he doesn't say it. He's no fool. He writes it.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt.

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.

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