Tell me I'm beautiful, it's nothing. Tell me I'm intellectual - I know it. Tell me I'm funny and it's the greatest compliment in the world anyone could give me.

When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder.

Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough.

The '60s was the end of the America that the rest of the world liked.

I'm magnificent! I'm five feet eleven inches and I weigh one hundred thirty-five pounds, and I look like a racehorse.

More is not necessarily better. BETTER IS BETTER.

You can't fail. The further you fall, the greater the opportunity for growth and change.

Cats are sleek, cats are fast. Cats are... well... they aren’t mean their just wiley. And they will grab your attention in the most seductive way.

Beauty is what I feel my life is about - the garden, the house, whatever. I see the world that way, yet it isn't.

I'm just rich. I own businesses and I love it.

If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.

You know it's time to do the laundry when you dry off with a sneaker,

Writing is like exercise. You have to work at it to see results.

The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.

I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand.

If you're a skilled player, you want to use your skill, not just hit the puck.

Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.

You always think you could have done more. That's why you need a friend - to tell you you did all you could.

The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards.