Honeymoons are the beginning of wisdom--but the beginning of wisdom is the end of romance.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.

Dune was a world of paradox now—a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power.

Neil once told me you had to become a monster so that you didn't become the victim of one instead. I don't care what anyone says. I believe him.

Don’t just do the obvious and predictable stuff, be remarkable!

In fighting scandal, the key is not to overreact.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

That's the best advice I can give - when you're trying to write a comedy, first write a drama, and then make it funny.

It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone ever make love?

It has been said that sometimes we need a story more than food in order to live. p 374

No matter how many lawyers and lawsuits Obama throws at Arizona, we will have the American people and the Constitution on our side.

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.