Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

Don't do small stuff early in your energy cycle or you'll blow your 'golden hours,' but occasionally you have to do the 'possible' to develop the momentum for the killer task.

Get up and do it if it needs to be done, even if you hate it!

My father died when I was 10; my sister got polio a couple of years later and was paralyzed. So there I was - my sister in a wheel chair, my father gone, and my mother a quiet little mouse. You see, it was the '30s in the South, so my mother was not prepared to cope. So I was scared to death. And being that scared, everything afterward became a struggle not to go down the drain. Struggling became a way of life for me.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take the money and the power.

Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.

When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do.