We all come from our own little planets. That's why we're all different. That's what makes life interesting.

The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.

And who are the greater criminals-those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?

The only people who grow old were born old to begin with.

That's the whole story of my life: frustration. It's a chronic disease, and it's incurable.

Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat.

Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned.

Religious faith as a whole induces various health benefits in the general population through complex biological processes.

Do we choose sleep? Hell no and bullshit - we fall. We give ourselves over to possibility, to whim and fancy, to the bed, to the pillow, the tiny white tablet. And these choose for us.

You've always got to have a plan. Keep thinking ahead. Don't ever get complacent.

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

You don't really prepare for a kissing scene.

I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.

Every perversion has survived many tests of its capabilities.

Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption.

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.