Rita Mae Brown

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”

“A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.”

“Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.”

“All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.”

“Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.”

“Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.”

“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.”

“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”

“A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.”

“I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.”

“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.”

“Morals are private. Decency is public.”

“I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.”

“Political elections are not life and death.”

“Life is too short to be miserable.”

“If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.”

“We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?”

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.”

“There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.”

“Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.”

“Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.”

“I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.”

“Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.”

“No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.”

“Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.”

“Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.”

“Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.”

“Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.”

“I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.”

“If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.”

“So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.”

“If the world were a logical place, men would ride sidesaddle.”

“I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain”

“The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.”

“Writers will happen in the best of families.”

“I don't think you can ever assess your work. I don't think Turgenev could assess his any more than I can assess mine, and his didn't have a social impact as much as great literary impact.”

“As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.”

“I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.”

“Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.”

“I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.”

“While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.”

“All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.”

“The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.”

“You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.”

“When God made man she was practicing.”

“I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.”

“I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.”

“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”

“You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.”

“There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.”

“Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.”

“Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.”