My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.

There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

Quitters don't win and winners don't quit.

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

My take on celebrity is simply that some of us have to make a bigger fool of ourselves than others.

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.

I was a tap dancer as a child, so I understand precision and repetition.

Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed. His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!

Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!"

I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.

The biological clock and the career clock are in total conflict with each other.

Yeah, I can see why beautiful cars are compared to beautiful women... they usually belong to someone else.

You're always in the kitchen," Alianora said when she poked her head through the door a moment later. "Or the library. Don't you ever do anything but cook and read?

Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts at controlling body and soul.

In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.

There is some talk of lowering (the income tax), and they will have to. People are not making enough to pay it.