Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become screenwriters.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

On Virtue - Goodness is its own reward. It has to be

The only quality that distinguishes the greats from the masses, is the unwillingness to give up.

There never has been a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than Robinson.

Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for it.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dives as the men now.

Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.