Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.

The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.

It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality.

Love with passion. Love for no reason.

We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.

Fantasies are real. They have effects on your soul, even though, as I was too young to really step forward.

Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant.

What are we but our stories?

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.

When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that's when votes started being cast with emotion and uh, maternal instincts that government ought to reflect.

Karachi captures all of those rifts between ancient and modern, communal and individual. You see them playing out in people's lives.

I want to let my fans know I love them and I'm coming your way and I'm bringing truckloads of funny.