A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.

And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown’s most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career.

Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.

We have one life to live - and one chance to live it in the richest way possible.

This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish.

Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize.

Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room.

The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript and suggests changes.

Conservatives like Palin and Reagan and others do seem to love the series, but so do people of all political stripes and backgrounds. I speak about the series' "radiant simplicity."

Anyone with a form of godliness is promoting ungodliness, whether ignorantly or knowingly.

No doubt.. Endings are hard, but then again.. nothing ever really ends, does it??

Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man.

Jiu-Jitsu is like a philosophy. It helps me learn how to face life.

But don't blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she's still experimenting.

And you call yourself a Christian,' were Hilly's words to me and I thought, God. When did I ever do that?

France isn't burkinis on the beach. France is Brigitte Bardot. That's France.

Shania Twain ... has done more for country and western than heartbreak and whiskey combined.

To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.