But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

When life gives you lemons don't make lemonade, make pink lemonade. Be unique.

I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people - not a large group, but quite a few people - who come to see me because they love Curb Your Enthusiasm.

If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.

I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.

Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.

If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.

I don't like the saying keep your friends close and enemies closer. I want my enemy on a different planet.

I don’t understand why people really get upset about something that doesn’t affect them at all.

Streets paved with opal sadness, Lead me counterclockwise, to pockets of joy, And jazz.

But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable

His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.

I love to play the game of life.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

The song Some Other Time is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

Have you ever heard one civilized person whose opinion you respect, at any time, anywhere, in any civilized country anywhere, say the good new days?

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

So could we please not mob the three-thousand-plus-year-old reaper like tweens at a boy-band concert?