What in the world would we do without our libraries?

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

Never complain. Never explain.

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

When I was achild my worldwasn’t blackand white, it was grey, until I gotbeat upenough timesto realizemy skin wasbeige, anddifferent

The other one I did was "I, Robot." I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.

I take the Bible literally, but not seriously.

I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.

Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.

I believe in everything until it's disproved.

Mrs Thatcher requires devotion as well as obedience.

There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.

The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience. [On diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic of China]