If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.

There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.

Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.

A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.

Funny, 'ow you can 'old a jewel in your 'and, and toss it away, and not even know what you 'ad until it's gone.

I focus on details, either of the body, or of objects that represent gender, sexuality, and other themes.

I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay, a big stack of bills that gets bigger each day.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.