In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.

If you don't burn the candle at both ends, what's the candle got two ends for?

My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't really any good at it. I hate remembering who owes me what and bugging them if they haven't paid me.

Logic is a wonderful invention. It is so wonderful, people often mistake it for reason. Reason, however, requires sense. Logic requires only consistency.