[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.

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.

God doesn't ask us to understand, but He does ask us to trust.

A monster that refused, sometimes, to behave like a monster. When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?

Consider your goal like a war to win and use whatever strategies you know to win

What a great privilege it is to be here

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But in fact, they are not at all different.

I'm really happy that it's in Russia. I've had a lot of success here. I had my first world championships here when I was younger so I am happy to do the Olympics here. I am really enjoying myself.

He hit the post, and after the game people will say, well, he hit the post.

Culture is something that we all share and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.