All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

Anybody can fail.

I hear the most music in the depths of silence.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

I have bad car juju." -Stephanie Plum

I'm glad that we have a history at all and that we can talk about feminist history. But I do think that it doesn't really pay attention to the complexity and the nuance that is feminist thought.

She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile

Every farewell combines loss and new freedom.

Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.

True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically.

If I like you, I'm going to tell you. I'm a hugger, even with men: I'm just very deep.