Even the promiscuous feel pain.

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.

I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out.

I don't think there's anything to be admired in lying, cheating or philandering. But there might be something to be admired in not burning people at the stake because they have those weaknesses.

There are some people whom you have in life who have the capacity for real, passionate commitment to something, and sometimes you may be passionately committed to the same thing.

Government is not show business.

And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.

What you see and what you focus on has a profound impact on your behaviour.

I already feel like the Girl Who Lived around here.

You can either control yourself by simple two lines of bitter truth, OR by confusing yourself in long stories to comfort with a lie

Ceremonies are no aid to blessedness.

There is no later. This is later.

No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.

The deepest dark reveals the starriest hope.

People who need to believe in deities can find them everywhere they look.

"Doctor, my leg hurts. What can I do?" The doctor says, "Limp!"

The Feast of Fortuna had nothing to do with tuna, which was fine with Percy.