Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.

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.

There is more food in a pennyworth of bread than in a gallon of ale.

A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.

If your character is not strengthening, your future is weakening.

We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs.

Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a devout Catholic and gave her a strong belief in the family.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it.

All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.

Protest actions and propaganda are two slightly different things.

The point to remember is that a giant leap into space can be a giant leap toward peace down below.