Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.

The signature of a truly enviable woman is the tenacity and continuity of her women friends.

I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.

I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me.

As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole.

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.

anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a need to write a play.

The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without your even asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.

Serve your parents if you expect your children to serve you when you are old

In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people for all the people by all the people.

A fool bolts pleasure then complains of indigestion.

We will win with character, not with characters.

You make me feel like I have wings when you touch me.

People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.

I am fun. I do have a good time. I have a good heart. I'm not all jokes. I'm a pretty serious person sometimes. I'm very very hardworking. I'm very academic.

Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

It's not so much what happens to us, as what happens in us that counts.