Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

Never complain. Never explain.

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Lila cringed at the ghost of Barron's words, a memory with edges still too sharp to touch.

Snow's table manners are atrocious - it's like watching a wild dog eat. A wild dog you'd like to slip the tongue.

Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.

I got into [producing] to be part of stories that wouldn't necessarily be right for me as an actor.

There is very little sense that anybody really knows what works or why. But that's not a shock. And I don't think market research would solve that.

The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up.

If there is a small rocket on top of a big one, and if the big one is jettisoned and the small one is ignited, then their speeds are added.

It's one of the curses of designing that when you look at anything, you're constantly thinking, Why? Why - why was it designed like that, and not like this?

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture.