They sicken of calm who know the storm.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but ingenuity is the bombshell of success

Apparently rational justifications will never explain all sorts of the different feelings and raw emotions art invoke in people.

I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you.

All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.

All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.

The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod, and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit.

I had never made a record before, so I didn't know anything about it. I don't know anything about knobs, frequencies, tones.

I'm always moving apartments or moving houses or moving cities.

You can run from some problems, but then you get caught up in others.

A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time.