Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.

you want to write a book for so many reasons ... The main reason ... is because it will make you well-known and beloved and popular and successful and famous and respected. You also write ... to make money, but that motivation is not first on the list.

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

It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want.

My own philosophy is if you're not having sex, you're finished. It separates the girls from the old people.

If you're a little mouseburger, come with me. I was a mouseburger and I will help you. You're so much more wonderful than you think. Cosmopolitan is shot full of this stuff although outsiders don't realize it. It is, in its way, an inspiration magazine.

I guess I'm a survivor. There are many of us survivors and any successful woman of my age has somewhat of that in her.