Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.

For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.

Of course, history is only a muddle of facts and a fuddle of professors, and anyone who thinks it is one clear voice saying "Arise, sir Knight" deserves a life sentence in Camelot.

Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.

The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers in New York and I couldn't decide which one to jumo into.

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.

If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.

The worse we treat people in this country, the more delicately we talk about them.

Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of 'National Geographics,' is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in Maine, so one goes back to one's Michener.

I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations.

December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond summer sympathies ensnared; Nor from the perfect circle of the year Can even winter's crystal gems be spared.

I am a woman, I make mistakes. I make them often. God has given me a talent and that's it.

When it's done properly, taco should be a verb.

My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband. -Penelope Featherington

I do have 14 tattoos, but I also do come home every single night and watch reality TV with my cat.

The universe conspires to reveal the truth and to make your path easy if you have the courage to follow the signs.

Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.

All invincible and stuff

Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman?