In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.

My body is on the earth, but my head is in the stars.

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.

I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

Be grateful for every moment and every breath.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

The first rule for speaking well is to think well.

People had said to me New York is kind of cutthroat and people walk past you on the street. I find it the opposite. I find that people want to talk.

I guess when we're happy, it's easier to go with the flow, and when that happiness or joy is interrupted, that's when we get contemplative and break out the guitar or pen and write about it.

When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions.

You must not ever stop being whimsical.

I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers.

That's not going to happen, because I don't want it to happen. I don't want a movie about me until I'm very, very old - when I'm very, very old, everybody that wants to play me will be middle-aged.

It's not what happens to you, It's what you do about it.