And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel... its poverty by how little.

A confident decision makes a lasting goal.

My mother said "You won't amount to anything because you procrastinate." I said "Just wait."

Will you please shut the hell up!?

Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.

I am terribly proud of-I was born in Cambridge in 1952 and my initials are DNA!

Because I was newly pregnant, I was sick as a dog, yet I knew all my lines from a year before.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation.

The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence.