There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity.

There is no merit in a special talent unless its exercise is of use to others.

There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life.

Quality rather than quantity distinguishes the master.

The same as a cigarette?" asked Rita excitedly, as Mrs. Sin bent over her."The same, but very, very gentle.

Because the part of me that remembers what it was like all those lifetimes ago still cares for you .. loves you.

The best of the best understand that people do business with people they like. People do business with people they trust, and people do business with those who make them feel special.

‎There's no way to cheat a sensualist like me, somebody who can die laughing for hours over the pattern of the carpet in a hotel lobby.

I am indeed honored to call him my friend.

The process of building a part doesn't really stop.

My children were attacked by the Minnesota media when I was governor.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Some people leave artwork, some people do rude things, other people then turn those rude things into nice things.

The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.

Well I'm not dumb, but I can't understand why she walked like a woman, but talked like a man.