In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

You know what all the plutonium can buy me?" "Yeah it'll buy you one hell of a funeral!" Angel says angrily to man who was behind everything!

I'm not involved in politics, and I've never had any political role. I've never been in office. I've never taken any public administrative jobs.

Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.

India needs a change - it cannot be ruled by 80-year-olds and by people who have done nothing for it.

When we place our discontented egos on the altar of gratitude, we develop contented altar egos filled with thanksgiving.

Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it's gone, it doesn't comeback.

In life, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything.

As you all know by now, this is the 51st annual Academy Awards. Two hours of sparkling entertainment spread out over a four-hour show.

Standing here, staying here, permanent here, eternal here, and we have one goal, one, one: to be.

One must choose between loving women and knowing them.