Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.

Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished.

Keep your talent in the dark and you'll never be insulted.

Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

I used to feel like I was drowning. So I stopped trying to swim.

Where military service begins, logic ends.

I need to breathe” I manage to get out, his hold on me loosens slightly.“I need you

Like all other Black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.

If your church loves the way you do church more than your children, it loves the wrong thing.

I cling to nowhere until I fall - the crash of Nothing.

In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us to a future based on renewable resources.

A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.