His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.

I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).

He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.

Poetry is the beauty of life.

The slow compromise or even surrender of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.

Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.

Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species

To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin... to set something into motion.

You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow.

If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.

Onstage, I'm still wearing my fabulous, sheer dresses because I'm not that big.

Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but the loyalty never fades.

I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity.