My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?

There's a light at the end of the tunnel. And it's a train.

Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.

My femininity is always something I've tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world.

I went out to dinner with a Marine last weekend. He looked across the table and he goes, "I could kill you in seven seconds." I go, "I'll just have toast, then."

I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.

The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently.

I hate people. People make me pro-nuclear.

I can't get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes.

If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."

My mom's Jewish and my dad's Irish Catholic alcoholic, so I whine on the inside.

Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end.

He disposes Doom who hath suffered him.

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.

To wish happiness for others, even for those who want to do us harm, is the source of consummate happiness.

There is no greater honour than to serve Canadians.

If your country's in war there ain't nothin' you can do exceptin' help

I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools; they're things that you learn in life.

It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.

A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

I'll finish a body of work and think, "Okay, I got nothing. That was it. I'm done." And then you'll turn a corner and be like, "Oh my God!" And it keeps happening. I feel so lucky.