I am committing suicide by cigarette, ” I replied. She thought that was reasonably funny. I didn’t. I thought it was hideous that I should scorn life that much, sucking away on cancer sticks.

I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.

Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics

Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it. It can be done. You can do it--love yourself

Don't forget to wind the restricted clock and put the confidential cat out.

Homo-Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns.

Somebody will beat both [contents and price] sooner or later because that is good old Free Enterprise, where the consumer benefits from battles between jolly green giants.

He had had no experience in asking for a job with a big organization, and Mr. Dilling was making him aware of what a fine art it was--if you couldn't run a machine. A duel was under way.

A woman's not a woman till the pills wear off.

The five senses offer us five different ways of shutting out reality. What is intuition and what does it perceive?

A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.

All those hours exploring the great outdoors made me more resilient and confident.

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.

Great men don't nessarily make good husbands.

A state in India will have more traders than perhaps a European nation. Trade is a great way to integrate people.

You know, most girls sleep with a teddy bear or an extra pillow. But I gotta say, that's kinda hot.

For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.