The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work..

I've got a penny-ante talent, out of which I try to drum up a living for myself. And what nobody seems to realize is that it's just as difficult to g….

Success is often harder to take than failure..

Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed..

I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it..

There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it..

War makes strangers bedfellows..

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do..

Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful..

Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement..

Everything matters, but nothing matters very much..

She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride. Nothing had ever tasted so good as the cool golde….

there are only two ways to make a lot [of money] while you're young: One is to entertain the public; and the other is to cheat it..

... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like ….

It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive..

the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps th….

They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how much time was left. Amber, watching him, was suddenl….

There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you'….

Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years..

If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness.

I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway..