Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

Without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.