The entire population of the universe with one trifling exception is composed of others.

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe with one trifling exception is composed of others.

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up ... and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.

If he invited you out, he's got to pay.

If any Englishman said he has never called a Chinaman a chink he is lying. There is nothing bad about doing that. It is like calling the British Brits, or the Irish Paddies.

The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.

I don't want to be defined as someone's girlfriend.

The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.

Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom.

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.