"I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year."

"With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying."

"It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies."

"I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless."

"This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."

"There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne."

"Death is an old joke, but it comes fresh to everyone."

"Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of."

"Other things may change us, but we start and end with family."

"It is human nature to hate him whom you have injured."

"Never underestimate your own ignorance."

"I have found power in the mysteries of thought,exaltation in the changing of the Muses;I have been versed in the reasonings of men;but Fate is stronger than anything I have known."