It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

Your heart often knows things before your mind does.

The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels; the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid -- these are whores in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.

I am one of those people who can't help getting a kick out of life - even when it's a kick in the teeth.

I couldn't live my reputation down - all right then, I'd live up to it.

My home is in whatever town I'm booked.