Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. ... Roast Beef, Medium, is safe, and sane, and sure.

here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.

I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work that a woman can do well.

A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.

No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.

Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.

Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and mistreated by servants, and repolished, and knocked around and dusted and sat on or slept in or eaten off of before it develops its real character ... A good deal like human beings.