The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.

"One becomes a deeply religious nonbeliever...". It is clear from the original that it is definitely not "I".

My grandfather had been a well-known judge in Berlin.

The Army needs leaders the way a foot needs a big toe.

I'm drinking lots of herbal tea.

I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.

I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do instead of roles that I had to do to pay the bills.

I'd always have a sort of automatic urge to share what I'm doing with other people.

I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.

I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.