Good girls don't hurt other people's feelings. Good girls are not overly aggressive, competitive, or boastful. Good girls please others. But what good girls are good for is another question.

Sure, beauty has the power to excite men. But so does a box of donuts.

Weddings are giant Rorschach tests onto which everyone around you projects their fears, fantasies, and expectations - many of which they've been cultivating since the day you were born.

A girl doesn't need a guy in her life in order to act like a complete idiot. Certainly I, at least, never have.

Approximately seventy percent of the female population is on a diet at any given time. More women diet than vote.

I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to.

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don't, if you put them first, they never thank you. You'll never get a word of thanks from them.

How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?

I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing

The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems.

In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims.

There are three kinds of liars: liars, damned liars, and statisticians

Am I really a good mathematician?

I'm told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and the plots are lively.

Greatness can never be over because you can lay it down for a minute.