I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.

I'm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.

My work caused me to interview hundreds of women about their lives and their problems.

I have only one reader - me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry about.

the rich are different only because people treat them as if they were.

You can browse to your heart's content but it's hard work and not easy on the feet unless you do it through catalogs or the Internet, and I like to touch and try on the things I buy.

For my part, I think that the mystery is always greatest where there is the most - emptiness.

it is strange, is it not, how an accident of millimeter here, a millimeter there, makes one face so important.

Pm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.

He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.

Don’t give me that Christian forgiveness bullshit, Dukach. I’m a vindictive Jew!” he’d bellow.

The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.

Without the accurate spine movement, one can't exist dynamically.

Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.

I'm a real pushover for animals.

You stink like a faerie, all flowers and sunshine and evil manipulation.

If you want to be a leader, the first person you have to lead is yourself.

Lita wait! I need advice on taking 5 guys at once!

Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.