I'm not an addictive personality, I just like getting high, that's all.

— Rita Mae Brown

It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.

— Rita Mae Brown

I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.

— Rita Mae Brown

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

— Rita Mae Brown

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

— Rita Mae Brown

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

— Rita Mae Brown

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

— Rita Mae Brown

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

— Rita Mae Brown

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.

— Rita Mae Brown

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

— Rita Mae Brown