The trouble with those people is that they think all the best things are made in the cities. It is not so.

Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.

What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!

All the real things in Russia are done in the villages.

When the women get the vote, we'll spend more money on the children.

The real heroes are those ones who are forgotten, forsaken and remain the nameless ones, in the history of time.

My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime.

A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.

Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to mention our crockery and our woolens!

When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.

The best way to hear somebody else's secret is actually to share one of your true secrets.

In the interweave of mind and body, dance is a mode that allows people to work through difficulties, anticipate the future, recollect the past, and confront the present.

To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.

A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; I takes its own course, finds its own way, its own words; and the writer's job is to be its medium.

I've always felt that, no matter where you go, people are just people.