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

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.

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.

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Life becomes difficult when out of sync with your heart-felt desires.

There are some things you can't learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

For a while, I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label.

the disorders of your hearts, and their sinful workings are as words before God.

Salt. Wound. Together at last.

I worked at a group home for a survival job years ago, and kids who have a rough home life have always tugged at my heart-strings. I also care a lot about animal cruelty.

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.

It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation.