Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it; it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.

I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back.

A bird who can gobble is qualified to teach crowing.

Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice.

Yeah, but if you're not doing what everyone else is doing then you're going to be misunderstood. People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct.

Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.

If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional.

We have contingency plans for war, but none for peace.