Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.

- Hiss of Death , Rita Mae Brown

He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.

- Venus Envy , Rita Mae Brown

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.

- Rita Mae Brown

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

- Rita Mae Brown

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

- Rita Mae Brown

When God made man she was practicing.

- Cat on the Scent , Rita Mae Brown

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

- Rita Mae Brown

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

- Alma Mater , Rita Mae Brown

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

- Rita Mae Brown

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

- Rita Mae Brown

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

- Rita Mae Brown

Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.

- Riding Shotgun , Rita Mae Brown

Writers will happen in the best of families.

- Rita Mae Brown

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

- Rita Mae Brown

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

- Rita Mae Brown

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

- Rita Mae Brown

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

- Rita Mae Brown

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

- Rita Mae Brown

Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.

- Rita Mae Brown

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

- Rita Mae Brown

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

- Rita Mae Brown

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

- Rita Mae Brown

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

- Rita Mae Brown

Humor comes from self-confidence.

- Rita Mae Brown

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

- Rita Mae Brown

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

- Rita Mae Brown

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

- Rita Mae Brown

Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - It's made for the losers.

- Rita Mae Brown