Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

Friends don't let friends become BossHoles! Or work for one either.

With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.

Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world. Yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world.

Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness

I have an obsession with Milk Duds. Eating them tastes like heaven.

My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.

Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes.

Like the birds I will fly.

I love watching the romantic comedies of the late '50s and early '60s. I used to have a rule that if Tony Randall's in it, it can't be bad.