Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.

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.

I chose to stay with him for all the things that he had done right and not to leave him for the one thing that he had done wrong.

There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.

Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive solution.

His letters ... have been like fine cold water when you are terribly thirsty.

To become fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.

The important thing is to make a different world, to make a world that is not now. A real world, a genuine world, but one that allows myth to live. The myth is everything.

You don't have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.

I am not concerned with verisimilitude... I am not concerned with capturing reality. I am concerned with creating it myself.

I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives.