What's talent but the ability to get away with something?

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

It was the nicest thing she could imagine. It made her want to have his babies and give him both of her kidneys.

Waiting is a form of passive persistence.

I was a commodity, like a hot dog. It was like hot dogs and Betty Hutton.

The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.

People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'

37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.

After working for years, in the end days, people realize its peace for what they have worked for all those years by loosing the peace.

If you've ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look like Jack Nicklaus

If you become a monk because it's an easy life, because you're going to be fed, and sheltered and people will respect you, then that is not a very meritorious motivation.

I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.