On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter.

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.

They called you the Glue""The Glue?""Yeah. Probably because you're kind of the glue that holds us all together

My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband.-Penelope Featherington

Also, in the dismal Cold Waste, any man treasures illusions, though knowing them almost certainly to be such.

I don't play them a lot of minutes. I have great starters. I have All-Stars, world champions.

Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.

Just what part does the State play in production to warrant its rake-off? The State does not give; it merely takes.

The first task is to discover the dharma by introspection, by constantly questioning yourself and asking yourself, "What is right?"

But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow.

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.