Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.

History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.

When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.

The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience, the one hundredth meridian - you have reached the West.

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.

A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.

The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.

Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.

Enjoy good moments while they last, then make sure they're not the last

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

When learning was monopolized by the monks in the Middle Ages, people specialized only in warfare and statecraft. And even these were not altogether free from the scholastic influence.

Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

I just love expressing my joy and my mind through what I wear, or how I cook, or how I dance, or how I write or perform a song - how I move.

I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.

Keep your private life private. Be open to suggestions from different people. And just be nice. I have heard stories about people who are just plain rude to the press or fans.

I'm chasing my dreams straight to the top - into a sky that has no limits.

I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.