The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

I shouldn't toot my own horn, but he who doth not toot his own horn alloweth it to remain untooteth.

For six years profound silence was mistaken for profound wisdom.

I would rather be a servant in the house of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.

...the best definition that I heard of that is that a bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job that a Republican wants.

What's life without whims?

Happiness does not depend on a possession. Happiness depends on action and perception.

He has always admired writers who each day begin a journey towards the unknown and who nevertheless spend all their time sitting in a room".

I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.

Obviously there was Keith Haring and Robert Mapplethorpe, but Howard was on the brink of becoming a famous director - it didn't happen because he died.

There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.

To know the world, not love her, is thy point; She gives but little, nor that little, long.

My success was also owed to career women who maybe had big legs or ample thighs, who felt well-protected by my fluid clothing that hid their flaws.

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.

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