I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

If you want people to to think, give them intent, not instruction.

All I ever really wanted to do was arouse souls through my writing and enjoy my journey to becoming one with myself and with the world.

All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.

There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.

Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her. [Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.]

What I believe in is love your neighbor as yourself and don't call him stupid because they don't agree with you politically.

The makeup person said oh my God what happened to you? I looked like I was in a car accident.

To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.