In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone else’s mother was staying at home.

I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something

Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down.

How can you know it's the best, if you don't learn about anything else?

In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.

May you and your triple cursed wash water turn purple with orange spots and fall down a bottomless pit!

Always be polite to a dragon. It's harder than it sounds. Dragon etiquette is incredibly complicated, and if you make a mistake, the dragon eats you.

Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.

Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory

No need to try to explain to others what's in your heart. Some things are just between you and God.

Pseudo idealism: apparent charitable behaviour that on scrutiny is revealed as selfish, because the giver is engaging in it only so that he or she can feel good about him or herself

Space is not an enterprise that belongs to the U.S. or to Russia or to China - it is a human endeavor and experience. And that's as it should be.

democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans. ... You think about it. 'All right for me but not for you' is their philosophy.

My point is this: the more you have to lose, the braver you are for standing up.

When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.

It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.

We must prevent a criminal understanding between the Fascist aggressors and the British and French imperialist clique.

Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.

There are some people who always feel happy. They're called psychopaths