If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

Speech is the deadliest of revealers.' - Hercule Poirot, Cards on the Table

There's something mystical in the air and in my heart.The weather is showing my emotions.

Better overcautious than missing a jugular vein, as the saying goes."That was a very morbid saying. Maybe only vampire said it.

Give it up for the process that leads to childbirth!

An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.

I've never been the kind of actress that just likes to show up and say my lines. I'm fascinated by what the crew does.

We must constantly dare ourselves in the small things, until courage becomes a habit of mind that will serve us when we are unexpectedly tested.

Sustaining silence and circumspection are two behaviors that lead to better, healthier outcomes. They are powerful without dominating.

I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.

No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.