It was a marriage of convenience, as my father had a blister on his big toe and couldn't travel far to find a girl.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.

If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.

Yours is a true heart, Vespertilio. Beware of it, for it is surely too large for thy chest to contain.

Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.

There are so many people out there working with great grassroots and global and national organizations that are unsung heroes to me.

It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life.

I don't need to waste my time with a computer just because I am a computer scientist.

I've been out on the book tour going through Pittsburgh, St Louis and Cleveland, Dayton and Orlando, Raleigh-Durham. I sign many books for people.

Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.