Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Such are the brutalities of war

I've always liked Anna, but according to my mother, her family is complete New Money, and my grandmother has pointed out on several occasions that they're not even really Southern.

It seemed unfair that despite the fact he could not use them, or feel them, his extremities should cause him so much discomfort.

You can make a thousand different movies about the same subject.

Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for sympathy or pain or compassion. We simply want to know why.

Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.

Humor is not the opposite of seriousness. Humor is the opposite of despair.

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

Awakening is not something you achieve. It is something you relax into.

When a sincere woman begins to dance, the seven heavens, the earth, and all creatures begin to dance.