Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

Among other things a marriage is a system of belief, a story, and though it manifests itself in things that are real enough, the impulse that drives it is ultimately mysterious.

Women in Jesus' day were less than second-class citizens.

Sometimes my mother goes through my socks and underwear. I wouldn't mind, but it tickles so much!

The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.

Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.

It is a little known fact that much like birds, who can always find north, knitters can always find yarn.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.

It's about using the right tools, with the right triggers, within a proper marketing framework

I read a lot of books for information, like doctor books, spy books. . . .