The bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this time.

There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white.

Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic and emotional.

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

Gie me a spark o' nature's fire that's a' the learning I desire.

I believe in Las Vegas. I think its best days are ahead of it. But I'm afraid to do anything in the current political environment in the United States.

I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.

You don't need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.

I grew up at 'All My Children;' I got married, had a daughter and made life-long friends there!

If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.

How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it

...New Beginning to the same old story

I think people like to exaggerate about the number of takes you do.

False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.