Banana Splits for Breakfast. I think I ate about five.

I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was 'To Kill a Mockingbird'-esque.

You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.

The name Sissy came because my brothers called me that.

I was always proud about being from Texas and, you know, maybe that was part of fearlessness. I love the fact that Texas is so big, but you don't feel small because of that.

You know, I don’t know what the future will bring, but I’m ready for whatever comes!

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

When I'm pushing myself, testing myself, that's when I'm happiest. That's when the rewards are greatest.

I may be ignorant but I ain't stupid!

You know, your career is just your career; your life is your life!

Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane.

Lovers meander in prose and rhyme, trying to say-for the thousandth time-what's easier done than said.

Life for me is just a result of experiments being performed by far more developed creatures.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.

It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.

LA is an intense city. I was probably a bit too sensitive. I didn't have any friends so I was keeping pretty low key. I just whipped myself up into a bit of an emotional frenzy.

Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for the things of the mind.

The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal.

There is no greater disease than the loss of hope.