I think my greatest talent really is for friendship.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

People are not interested in truths

To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

I love being a woman. I love the sexiness we get to exude. But the best thing about being a woman is the power we have over men.

To like things like, whatever one may ail; There is certain help.

Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress.

Success is buried in the garden of failure.

I'm going to start water skiing someday...as soon as I can separate it from being dragged by a boat.

As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."