(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.

That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.

Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.

The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.

Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

Shake and shake the catsup bottle none will come and then a lot'll.

If I ever make a hole in one, A thrill that I've never known, I won't be believed and I'll have no fun, For I'm sure to be playing alone.

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

If you convinced me And I convinced you, Would there not still be Two points of view?

Traveling into the unfamiliar is quite an adventure for a blind person. It makes me feel like a real explorer.

He had lovely eyes, really—not assessing, at all, but big and dark and…waiting.

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.

I didn't grow up wanting to become an actor at all. I wanted to be a sports trainer and I was actually an aerobics instructor.

All my life I have been restless-- I have felt there is something more wonderful than gloss-- than wholeness-- than staying at home.

Masturbation is a democratic pleasure, practiced by rich and poor, young and old, married and single.

Iran's nuclearization is the greatest single national security threat America faces.

Even as a kid, my memories are of books taking me out of myself.

The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.