[On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

I try to dream about peaceful things, beaches, that is what I cannot understand. Why are they chasing me?

[To the mother of two unruly children in a restaurant after the woman said she really didn't know what to do with her children:] Have you tried infanticide?

Great leaders make leadership look so easy.

God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking.

Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.

When you move into a spiritual approach to life you begin to see yourself as connected to everyone and everything, and competition is replaced by something called cooperation.

WESTBURY, a nasty odious rotten-borough, a really rotten place.