The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks.

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don’t—whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

Momentarily drained of lust, he stares at the remembered contortions to which it has driven him. His life seems a sequence of grotesque poses assumed to no purpose, a magic dance empty of belief.

They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him.

Oh that looked painful, " called another Puck, a little farther down. "We really need to talk about your anger-management problems.

God is the greatest Teacher.

It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true.

Things stayed peaceful in there, even as the crashing vehicles and the cries of the injured and dying reached a crescendo outside. "I fry mine in butter!" indeed.

I've worked a lot in comedy. As much as I love playing dramatic roles, it's always nice to be able to have some humor around when working.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

You might be a redneck if your bumper sticker says, My other car is a combine.

I can be quite daring with my clothes but I believe that you have to feel comfortable and confident to carry off whatever it is you're wearing.

I've felt that if I just used initials nobody would know whether I was a man or a woman, a dog or a tiger. I could hide from view, like a bat on the underside of a branch.

A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.