I'm the foe of moderation the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."

I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom.

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.

All my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.

Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.

My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.

They aren't making mirrors like they use to.

We do not teach history

Courage is being who you are.Courage is sacred of thyself.

Like old times... wanna arm wrestle for her?

One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. There’s always something just ahead.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education

At night I dream about going to where I played when I was still young.

What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.

During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.