Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Peace in patriarchy is war against women.

He's not pointing to anybody, he's showing off how high he can count!

I don't have to explain or defend the will of God. My job is simply to obey it.

A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your time trying to carve out a space for yourself in this crazy entertainment industry.

Sometimes a person thinks he's attached to one thing and he's really attached to something else.

There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park?

A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone.

I should have suspected my husband was lazy. On our wedding day, his mother told me: "I'm not losing a son; I'm gaining a couch."

What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.

Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.