"My friends think its weird that I spray perfume on my feet."

“I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a good novel or a best-seller and get frustrated when they can't. I've learned to despise them.”

“Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.”

“This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision.”

“Local defense will always be important. But there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the Communist world. Local defense must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power.”

Source : John Foster Dulles (1954). “Evolution of Foreign Policy: Text of Speech by John Foster Dulles Secretary of State Before the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, N.Y., January 12, 1954”

“My husband, Sal, and I put date nights on the calendar once a week. I know that doesn't sound romantic, but otherwise it won't get done.”

“I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't.”

“Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy.”

“Being alone is and nothing is altogether not.”