[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.

I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom.

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.

All my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.

Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.

My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.

They aren't making mirrors like they use to.

Where there is knowledge, the rooms arefurnished with valuable, beautiful things.(GNB)

There is no such thing as tough love. Love is kind, love is compassionate, love is tender.

If the institution of mathematics told a story . . . how would it end?

You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.

The serve was invented so that the net could play.

Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb.

There weren't too many books featuring other cultures and countries when I was growing up as an immigrant kid here in the States.

The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.