If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading.

The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.

To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.

I can tell a good cowboy by the way he approaches a cow.

The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it.

After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now."

At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes.

Those who control life, and the bodies of women, control the money and hold the power. Women who are kept indoors, cannot make money and will not hold any power.

Don’t believe the negative criticisms. You are capable beyond measure

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

First health then wealth then pleasure and do not owe anything to anybody.

I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

I have spent my entire life working to make my community and my country better. And I can't wait to get inside the courtroom to tell my story.

These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine.

Steer clear of pot. It's an ambition zapper. Wait till you've made it. When you're 45 buy a bong. But for now, buy a suit.

I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.

One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world.